groups, using "www" as "kline"

[Brad Mettee]

What are the permissions on the files you're trying to edit? 664 would 
allow owner/group editing, but readonly by world. If it's 644, then only 
owner can edit, but group/world can read.

At 04:05 PM 7/21/2008, you wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08:15AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > >     is there a way of modifing etcgroup to let me edit files
> > >     chown'd www:kline as kline?  after all, i am in the wheel
> > >     and operator group.
> >
> > Presuming you are in the kline group also, and that the files are
> > group-writable, you should be fine.
> >
> > On a fair number of sites I know of, there is a "webadmin" or
> > "wwwadmin" group setup which the users who should change webserver
> > resources are part of; but the apache www user is not a member of
> > this, so it can't change those files itself.
>
>
>         strage, i'm in kline is part of www; but i stil fon'thave
>         permission for myself---or, indeed, anyone new.
>
>         gary
>
>
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > -Chuck
> >
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