"Paul M. Foster" <pa...@quillandmouse.com> writes: > Folks: > > This is probably a stupid question for many of you, but I've been > struggling with it since I started using Linux in 1996. > > Say you have a directory in which there are development files. A > number of users will be creating, deleting and modifying the files > there. This is the type of situation which might have been common on > old Unix university systems. (Users might be accessing files via > Samba, NFS, or locally.) > > Just to make this more concrete, assume the development tree is in > /var/www/html/website. > > Without setting directory and file permissions to 777, how do you > allow the above? What combinations of groups, directory > owners/permissions and file owners/permissions might make this > possible? > > Paul
This situation is exactly what version control systems, especially like svn and git, were created to handle.
