On Thursday 12 February 2009 03:07:42 Paul Schmehl wrote: > > Sorry if I wasn't clear. > > I wasn't suggesting that the *users* chgrp the files. Keith would do that > as root. Then he sets the setgid bit to www (or whatever the web user is), > and from that point going forward any files created by the user would be > user:www instead of user:user. Set the umask to 027, and world has no > readability. > > This is exactly how I used to handle some files on a webserver that I > maintain that other people needed to be able to edit, add and delete files > from. Once the sgid bit is set, the group membership of the files remains > www no matter what user creates/touches a file.
Erm, isn't this only true for Linux and other SysV-type systems? Unless I'm remembering wrong, in FreeBSD files are always created with group ownership the same as the directory they're created in - so all you need to do is change the group ownership of the directory (which has to be done by root). Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"