Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:13:16 -0400 From: Brad Mettee <bmettee@pchotshots.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: groups, using "www" as "kline" Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20080721161309.035aadd8@mail.pchotshots.com>
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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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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