From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 27 09:12:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73ED716ADEB for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:12:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kyrreny@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A75C43D53 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:12:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kyrreny@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IZX00INP2WDUDD0@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 11:12:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from urban.broadpark.no ([80.203.212.30]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IZX00JVX2WDY7M0@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 11:12:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 11:12:19 +0200 From: Kyrre Nygard In-reply-to: <200605270046.04333.beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: Beech Rintoul Message-id: <7.0.1.0.2.20060527111043.022bfb40@broadpark.no> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060527102456.022a6fb0@broadpark.no> <200605270046.04333.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing /usr/local/www X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:12:28 -0000 At 10:45 27.05.2006, Beech Rintoul wrote: >On Saturday 27 May 2006 00:32, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I have a team of designers working on web 2.0 like sites. > > > > I have added them all to this box, now I'm wondering what's the most > > convenient way of giving them all access to /usr/local/www? > > > > My temporary solution has been to add all users with UID and GID 80, > > and then ln -s /usr/local/www ~/collabo for each user. > > > > If users have their original UID instead of www's then somehow they can't > > read or write to /usr/local/www. I thought sharing the same GID was > > sufficient, but obviously it isn't. I find this very strange. > > > > Some of them prefer just using FTP, so then being able to click on collabo@ > > and go straight to /usr/local/www is very convenient for them. > > > > But is there a better way? > > > > Thanks, > > Kyrre > >CVS is your friend. But there are also a ton of php scripts out there to do >what you want. > >Beech >-- Yeah I hear a lot of people like CVS. But I fail to realize how it might assist me though. I'm not setting up a code repository, this is an actual WWW root where a lot of different websites are hosted. Please correct me if I'm wrong. And what PHP scripts are you talking about? Thanks a lot, Kyrre