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From: "Patrick Seal" <patseal@hyperhost.net>
To: "FBSDQ" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Ftp Permissions
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 19:13:17 -0500
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I want the user patseal in the wheel group to be able to upload into
/usr/local/www/data/
The only way I see to do that is to change the owner from root to
patseal for that directory.  Is their any other way to do this?  Is my
solution safe?

Thanks,

Patrick Seal
patseal@hyperhost.net

Hyperhost
Web Hosting and Design
http://www.hyperhost.net


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