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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:51:48 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        pbrezny@newmail.skyrunner.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: permissions problems
Message-ID:  <20011212155148.I487@gohan.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112121641350.14063-100000@newmail.skyrunner.net>; from pbrezny@newmail.skyrunner.net on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:53:26PM -0500
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112121641350.14063-100000@newmail.skyrunner.net>

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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:53:26PM -0500, pbrezny@newmail.skyrunner.net wrote:
> I've got a cgi program that needs access to a file owned by the user:group
> netsaint:netsaint.
> 
> the apache webserver runs as www, so I modified this entry in /etc/groups
> 
> netsaint:*:1004:www
> 
> 
> however, the cgi i'm working with says it can't write to the file of
> interest unless i've modified the file i'm trying to write to with www as
> the group, like this:
> 
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 netsaint  www     9006 Dec 12 16:30 hosts.cfg
> 
> What am i missing here?
> 
> Why can't i just add www to the list of users in the group netsaint?

Did you _kill_ and restart the webserver?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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