I tried and failed What i found out is:
� witango has to be the owner of the folder you specify with the workgroupmanager Tool and you want to write to. Then you herit the folder down parent folders and you are done. Www did not work. Admi either Christian > Von: Robert Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Antworten an: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Datum: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:34:48 -0800 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: Witango-Talk: Permissions for writing to disk > > It can be a little more tricky with OS X. You have to remember that > Apache(on X and X server) is set up to use a user "www" with a group > "www". And then tango uses the user "witango". You should give the > group "www" full rights to your webfiles, and make sure witango is a > member of www. Also, if you are creating/copying files on the server, > check the permissions after you create them. They will default to the > user you were logged in as as the owner, and be associated with your > default group, either admin or staff, and the group probably won't have > full rights. With OS X Server 10.2 you can set the server to apply > parent rights to children which makes things much easier, and is why > this is much less of an issue on windows. > > Robert Garcia. > > On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 10:00 AM, Chris Millet wrote: > >> >> If the file already exists and you intend to overwrite it, then you can >> simply give permissions for everyone to read and write to that file. >> This is >> the safest way. If the file doesn't exist, then you need to give >> permissions >> to the directory where the file is located. >> >> If you are using Mac OS X Server, the Workgroup Manager Utility will >> be the >> easiest and most reliable way to set permissions for the file/folder. >> Apple >> has gone to great lengths to make their servers hyper-secure straight >> out of >> the box, and using their tools to manage permissions seems the best >> way to >> keep from inadvertently making your server vulnerable to attack. >> >> If not, try the SuperGetInfo utility from BareBones -- it allows you >> to set >> permissions using a nice gui interface. >> >> Chris >> >> >> >>> Hi list, what happens if a folder is absent - > error? >>> What about writing into an existing folder, will the file to be >>> written be >>> created? >>> What do the user rights have to be owner, chmod? >>> >>> I always get a Cannot open the specified file (-303) Seems again to >>> be a >>> lack of rights... >>> >>> Christian >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>> __ >>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> _ >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body >> >> > > -- > > Robert Garcia > BigHead Technology > 2781 N Carlmont Pl > Simi Valley, CA 93065 > Phone 805.522.8577 > http://www.bighead.net/ > http://www.theradmac.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
