On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/02/2013 05:48 AM, Silke Meyer wrote: >> Is it possible to switch to the project's account in a graphical >> environment and if so how??? >> Supposedly, there are/will be Tool Labs users working with GUI tools >> on Linux as well as Windows (like Winscp). >> >> What's the proposed workflow for them? > > In general, it's not necessary to switch to the tool account for this. > The tool account's home's permissions are set so that every maintainer > has write access to it directly. > > The only caveat is that if their umask is set to 022 (I've set it to 002 > on tools by default), files they create will not be writable by /other/ > maintainers without a fix.
Also, for the tool's public_html directory, is seems that PHP files will give a 500 error unless the owner of the file is tool user. -- Brad Jorsch Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
