Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-29 Thread Xen
deloptes schreef op 28-12-2016 20:17: Xen wrote: Xen schreef op 27-12-2016 23:13: Lost my temper there, Winston would say. Yes, I play video games too. What's the problem with that? You have a problem with that too? :). Also still want to add, If I may. No need to be so sensitive to

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-28 Thread deloptes
Xen wrote: > Xen schreef op 27-12-2016 23:13: > >> Lost my temper there, Winston would say. Yes, I play video games too. >> What's the problem with that? You have a problem with that too? :). > > Also still want to add, If I may. > No need to be so sensitive to what I say. We also do "wrong"

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-28 Thread Xen
Xen schreef op 27-12-2016 23:13: Lost my temper there, Winston would say. Yes, I play video games too. What's the problem with that? You have a problem with that too? :). Also still want to add, If I may. That even Mediawiki probably doesn't provide all the tools you'd need to completely

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-27 Thread Xen
Xen schreef op 27-12-2016 22:54: What I do works and provides a solution. What you do is complain and you do not provide anything, save for yourself, but I am not helped with that, nor is anyone else if you complain like that. Now enough. Lost my temper there, Winston would say. Yes, I play

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-27 Thread Xen
Greg Wooledge schreef op 27-12-2016 22:44: On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 10:43:19PM +0100, Xen wrote: Wrong does not exist. Irony. It is perfectly acceptable to do things a different way. It is also perfectly clear that many tools such as Dokuwiki do not provide the tools that perhaps Mediawiki

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 10:43:19PM +0100, Xen wrote: > Wrong does not exist. Irony.

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-27 Thread Xen
deloptes schreef op 27-12-2016 21:05: You are an i**ot I would immediately fire. Start reading the interfaces and using the programs as designed. If you want to do things your own way I do not want to know about it. Nobody asked you about it. You should stop feeling addressed as if you

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-27 Thread deloptes
Xen wrote: > Wrong. These programs typically create stuff without g+w so your user > has no write access to it. > > So you need at least one of the solutions mentioned. You keep insisting doing wrong things. If you use mediawiki, you do not need write access as a user. Leave this to the system

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-27 Thread Xen
Gene Heskett schreef op 27-12-2016 15:51: Since they create lost of files those programs typically create those files as the user the webserver is running as, which would typically be www-data. Sometimes you want to be able those files directly as a user outside of the application (which is

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 27 December 2016 07:28:58 Xen wrote: > Nicolas George schreef op 23-12-2016 9:32: > > Le tridi 3 nivôse, an CCXXV, Xen a écrit : > >> I think my point was more that I didn't know how to chgrp, but I > >> found I > >> needed to add myself to www-data first before I could chgrp to it. >

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-27 Thread Xen
Nicolas George schreef op 23-12-2016 9:32: Le tridi 3 nivôse, an CCXXV, Xen a écrit : I think my point was more that I didn't know how to chgrp, but I found I needed to add myself to www-data first before I could chgrp to it. Just a basic sanity check: If your web server is running as

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-27 Thread Xen
Greg Wooledge schreef op 23-12-2016 14:07: On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 01:17:23AM +0100, Xen wrote: Life becomes a whole lot easier if you can do stuff with your regular user, which is why I am putting stuff in my user home directory in the first place, instead of some central location. Making

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Xen, On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 06:24:59PM +0100, Xen wrote: > I am trying to get a webserver to run under my regular user, or at > least to have the website's files under control of my regular user, > but the webserver runs as www-data. You've been shown how to put yourself in the www-data

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 01:17:23AM +0100, Xen wrote: > Life becomes a whole lot easier if you can do stuff with your regular > user, which is why I am putting stuff in my user home directory in the > first place, instead of some central location. Making your life easier should NOT be your #1

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le tridi 3 nivôse, an CCXXV, Xen a écrit : > I think my point was more that I didn't know how to chgrp, but I found I > needed to add myself to www-data first before I could chgrp to it. Just a basic sanity check: If your web server is running as www-data, then it is better if the files do NOT

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-22 Thread Xen
chgrp as a user. Is there any way to achieve this? I mean I could add my user's group to the www-data user and I guess then I'd have access but I don't really see how changing a file's group could be a security risk. Maybe I should add myself to www-data instead? Yes, add your regular user

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-22 Thread Xen
deloptes schreef op 23-12-2016 0:40: perhaps you want to chown your-user.www-data /path or something like php5 -S : Run with built-in web server. Give up the bad ideas, seriously! I think my point was more that I didn't know how to chgrp, but I found I needed to add myself to www-data

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-22 Thread deloptes
Xen wrote: > Is there any way to achieve this? there is no need to run a web server as your user. perhaps you want to chown your-user.www-data /path or something like php5 -S : Run with built-in web server. Give up the bad ideas, seriously! trhstfd

Re: chgrp with user

2016-12-22 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 06:24:59PM +0100, Xen wrote: > I am trying to get a webserver to run under my regular user, or at least to > have the website's files under control of my regular user, but the webserver > runs as www-data. > > But it seems I cannot do chgrp as a user. >

chgrp with user

2016-12-22 Thread Xen
I am trying to get a webserver to run under my regular user, or at least to have the website's files under control of my regular user, but the webserver runs as www-data. But it seems I cannot do chgrp as a user. Is there any way to achieve this? I mean I could add my user's group to the www