Hi colin, Sorry for the delay in replying to this...
On Friday 04 January 2002 16:39, you wrote: > At 15:12 04/01/02 +0000, Mike wrote: > >Am I right in saying that if I issue ... > ># chown www:www /www > ># chmod 2755 /www > >then all files created in /www will be owned by user and group www and > > that I > > try > chown -R ... > and > chmod -r g+w ... > (I'm guessing that the directories are already executable by the group). Great stuff, I did the above so I now have the correct permissions on my /www, i still need to read some more about this to understand it though. > >need to include all users (who need) in the 'www' group. I geuss that I > >would also need to tell apache to run as www:www (currently default > >'nobody'). > > Yes this is set in httpd.conf which may be /etc/httpd, or > /usr/local/httpd/conf or....somewhere else. Just change where it says > nobody. Or if you don't use 'nobody' elsewhere why not just include > 'nobody' in the 'www' group? OK changed apache to run as www, also added selected users to www group. All working. > > Another way of having a completely different set of permissions on a > directory tree (bit dodgy this) is to export the directory via smb - since > you can specify the user permissions at the mount end! Mmmm, the very mention of Samba confusses me :-) I installed it a while ago and managed to get a very simple setup to share files on my LAN. BUT I dread to think how insecure it is! The more I followed the HOWTO the more things got confussed - this may very well be the subject of another post in the near future:) Originaly I intended to export my /www (on my 'server') to my work box but I gave up and installed proftp instead - probably not logical but then I seldom am .... In case you are wondering, this is not a professional setup. I got hooked on playing with web sites a few years ago, got Linux last year and now want to know everything. My grand plan is to learn enough to make a learning / resource network for my work (and as part of professional studies). i am an intensive Care Nurse practicioner by trade and see a huge potential in using open source tech's to impliment a structured training programme and information/support network. I reckon I can do this with Linux, Apache PHP and MySQL operating on a single 'server'. Then I could deploy this on the internet (rather than an intra) and license it as GPL. It really excites me but I have a great deal to learn - this by way of an explaination as to why I ask such stupid questions!! your help is greatly appreaciated, cheers Mike > > HTH > > Colin > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
