Re: [CentOS] Permissions question

2007-10-01 Thread umair shakil
Dear salam, Please make sure that, user viewpoint must be a member of that group which user todd belongs (because todd is able to write in the directory). I suppose permissions donot need to be checked, beacuse todd is able to write. OR, the files permissions should be 664 Regards, Umair Shakil

Re: [CentOS] Permissions question

2007-10-01 Thread James A. Peltier
Todd Cary wrote: Thank you all for the store of knowledge. I do have a follow up question about Rick's suggestion concerning ownership of the "Apache" directories. What is a good alternative? If they are "root", can Apache access them? Is that even good? Suggestions welcomed... Todd I'm

Re: [CentOS] Permissions question

2007-10-01 Thread Todd Cary
Thank you all for the store of knowledge. I do have a follow up question about Rick's suggestion concerning ownership of the "Apache" directories. What is a good alternative? If they are "root", can Apache access them? Is that even good? Suggestions welcomed... Todd Todd Cary wrote: My w

Re: [CentOS] Permissions question

2007-10-01 Thread Brett Serkez
Todd, On 10/1/07, Todd Cary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My www directory is owned by "apache" and the group is "todd" and the > permissions are 775. > > My Windows computers use Samba and they log into Linux with "todd". > > Under the www directory there are various directories which may have a >

Re: [CentOS] Permissions question

2007-10-01 Thread mups . cp
I think the 'force user' and 'force group' diretives are the right answer for you question. Set this on your samba share and set the user and group you want to maintain the owner and group permissions. On 10/1/07, Todd Cary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My www directory is owned by "apache" and t

[CentOS] Permissions question

2007-10-01 Thread Todd Cary
My www directory is owned by "apache" and the group is "todd" and the permissions are 775. My Windows computers use Samba and they log into Linux with "todd". Under the www directory there are various directories which may have a group belonging to a user e.g. "viewpoint". Using this example,