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Date:      Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:46:07 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "Patrick Seal" <patseal@hyperhost.net>
Cc:        "FBSDQ" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ftp Permissions 
Message-ID:  <199811110046.SAA06993@n4hhe.ampr.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Patrick Seal" <patseal@hyperhost.net>  of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 19:13:17 EST." <000301be0d08$14c35e40$0200a8c0@asus.hyperhost.net> 

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"Patrick Seal" writes:
> 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?

Add user patseal to the group of the directory /usr/local/www/data, 
possibly group name "http" or similar. You might want to run your web 
server in the same group, otherwise user patseal has to be careful to 
make sure the web server can still read files deposited via ftp.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.



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