On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 08:35:23PM +0000, Edward Betts wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, Brian May wrote: > > Maybe the web files should be owned by "www-data" and the web > > process should be owned by "www" or "httpd"? This way the > > descriptive names continue to make sense. Practical > > speaking, it is probably just as good to make web files > > owned by root, however, then the name "www-data" won't > > be the owner of any data. > > Would not work, the users on my machine who are aloud to edit the web pages > are members of the www-data group, do you suggest I make them members of root?
No need. Just create a new group and chgrp the files, setgid the directories etc. I have all the web page people here in a group web, and all the files in /var/web are in the appropriate group. (We used to have the standard documentroot in /var/web IIRC, and I've just created subdirectories for each virtual server instead). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
