bug#17495: chgrp: mention of being a member of the target group

2014-06-19 Thread Wouter Thielen
Hi Bob, Sorry for my late reply regarding this thread. As I stated in my e-mail, it is a deployment script. It retrieves the latest source code from a code repository, compresses it into a .tar.gz file, sends that file to the production server, and then runs a remote script on the production

bug#17495: chgrp: mention of being a member of the target group

2014-06-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 06/19/2014 01:31 PM, Wouter Thielen wrote: Hi Bob, Sorry for my late reply regarding this thread. As I stated in my e-mail, it is a deployment script. It retrieves the latest source code from a code repository, compresses it into a .tar.gz file, sends that file to the production

bug#17495: chgrp: mention of being a member of the target group

2014-06-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 06/19/2014 02:34 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: The variation on some systems where users can give away files is discussed at the APPLICATION USAGE and RATIONALE sections of: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/chown.html We should mention this _portable_ behavior in the

bug#17495: chgrp: mention of being a member of the target group

2014-06-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 06/19/2014 06:57 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: diff --git a/man/chown.x b/man/chown.x index 96b0c23..31e7104 100644 --- a/man/chown.x +++ b/man/chown.x @@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ If only a colon is given, or if the entire operand is empty, neither the owner nor the group is changed. .SH OPTIONS

bug#17495: chgrp: mention of being a member of the target group

2014-06-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Looks fine. Two nits barely worth mentioning: one in the .texi file: s/group in/group of/ one in the log: s/\*man/* man/ Also, in the relative formality of documentation, it's slightly better to write It is than It's

bug#17495: chgrp: mention of being a member of the target group

2014-06-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 06/19/2014 07:45 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: Looks fine. Two nits barely worth mentioning: one in the .texi file: s/group in/group of/ one in the log: s/\*man/* man/ Also, in the relative formality of documentation, it's slightly better to write It is than It's Pushed with those

bug#17495: chgrp: mention of being a member of the target group

2014-06-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Wouter, Wouter Thielen wrote: Sorry for my late reply regarding this thread. And I am late too. It is summertime here and fun stuff is happening. Exactly. So if the application user (let's call him appuser) was a member of the www-data group, then the deployment script run by appuser

bug#17495: chgrp: mention of being a member of the target group

2014-05-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Wouter Thielen wrote: Here is a very common usecase: sudo chgrp www-data dir in a deployment script. Hmm... Why are you often changing files to www-data? That is usually the process id that owns the web server process. Usually running apache or nginx or other web process. It is chosen

bug#17495: chgrp: mention of being a member of the target group

2014-05-14 Thread Wouter Thielen
Hi, Here is a very common usecase: sudo chgrp www-data dir in a deployment script. I have always used sudo with this because I didn't know why I was getting an operation permitted error when doing so. Until I found out that if the effective user is a member of the target group www-data, the