This is kind of a long story, so bear with me.
On our production web server, one owner -- cfusion -- owns all files in the web directories. cfusion belongs to the "webdev" group. The permissions on all of these files are set to -rw-rw-r-- (umask is set to 002); thus, cfusion can do anything to the files, and any user belonging to the "webdev" group can, in theory read and write to those files.
On our development web server, the different developers -- bob, hank, etc. -- own their own respective files in the web directories. All of the developers belong to the "webdev" group. Each developer has their umask set to 002, so the permissions on all files created by the users are -rw-rw-r--, so that any user in the "webdev" group can affect any other file created by any other user.
When users FTP files from the development server to the production server, they log in as "cfusion" on production. Thus, for example, if Hank moves his files from development to production, their ownership is changed to cfusion.
Recently, I thought it would be a good idea to retain information about file creation on the production server as well. To that end, I created user accounts for the developers on the production server, and assigned them all to the "webdev" group, just like on the development server.
Should have been simple, but now it's a mess. Developers can't seem to write to files on the production server, even if the file entry in ls looks like this:
-rw-rw-r-- 2 cfusion webdev 512 Jul 8 2003 file.txt
If I'm right about how ownership and permissions work, then any user who belongs to the webdev group should be able to write to file.txt.
Am I right? Have I missed something incredibly crucial? umask for each user is set to 002 so there shouldn't be a problem there.
Help!
-- Richard S. Crawford Programmer III, UC Davis Extension Distance Learning Group (http://unexdlc.ucdavis.edu) (916)327-7793 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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