On 8/1/2011 8:31 AM, Erwan Leroux wrote: > 2011/8/1 Gilles <[email protected]>: >> On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:03:11 -0500, Stan Hoeppner >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> By default, /var/www is owned by root.root, while Samba tutorials I >>>> read usually prefer to use nobody.nogroup. >>> >>> You sure about that? On Debian the owner of /var/www is www-data. >>> Ubuntu is derived directly from Debian. I'd be surprised if it's that >>> different. >> >> Yes, it is (installed through apt-get): > > I think most of the tutorials advise you to change from the default > root:root to www-data:www-data on this folder because this way you > have a user dedicated to the web server.
After you change ownership to www-data:www-data, use chmod to allow desired users to write the directory. Without this step only the www-data user can write. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
