Re: [CentOS] allowing users to write to a web content area

2011-05-17 Thread David Mehler
Hi, Thanks to everyone with suggestions thus far. I'm still having difficulties getting this to work. Using find and xargs I can get the permissions on the files and directories what i'm wanting, but adding new ones the umask takes over the group ownership is right but with the 077 it doesn't

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to write to a web content area

2011-05-17 Thread Michael Gliwinski
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 13:34:10 David Mehler wrote: difficulties getting this to work. Using find and xargs I can get the permissions on the files and directories what i'm wanting, but adding new ones the umask takes over the group ownership is right but with the 077 it doesn't matter. Using

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to write to a web content area

2011-05-16 Thread Marian Marinov
On Monday 16 May 2011 06:19:49 David Mehler wrote: Hello, I've got apache running on a centos 5.6 machine. All of my users have a umask of 077 set in /etc/bashrc. I'm now wanting to give several of them permission to write to a web area so they can place content visible to the web server.

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to write to a web content area

2011-05-16 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Marian Marinov wrote: On Monday 16 May 2011 06:19:49 David Mehler wrote: Hello, I've got apache running on a centos 5.6 machine. All of my users have a umask of 077 set in /etc/bashrc. I'm now wanting to give several of them permission to write to a web area so they can place content visible

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to write to a web content area

2011-05-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: This would give apache write access to the site contents, which is bad practice. It also won't solve the umask issue. Since the OP wants all members of webdev1 to have write access to site1, he needs the setgid bit active on site1/ . And he

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to write to a web content area

2011-05-16 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Marian Marinov wrote: On Monday 16 May 2011 06:19:49 David Mehler wrote: Hello, I've got apache running on a centos 5.6 machine. All of my users have a umask of 077 set in /etc/bashrc. I'm now wanting to give several of them permission to write to a web area so