U, Thanks... restarting or reloading seemed to apply the changes made to /etc/group file.
Is there a way to dump to screen the apache "environment stuff" to what exactly apache sees? I looked at the man pages for apache2 and apache2ctl searching for 'environment' ... no matches. R Udo Rader wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:08 -0500, Richard Geddes wrote: > >> Thanks for the response. >> >> I set up a directory under the main DocumentRoot called test >> >> drwxr-xr-x 2 rgeddes rgeddes 80 2008-02-18 15:18 test >> >> and it appeared in a directory listing in the webpage of my main >> DocumentRoot. >> >> Changed permissions as follows: >> >> drwxr-x--- 2 rgeddes rgeddes 80 2008-02-18 15:18 test >> >> and test disappears from the webpage (this makes sense) >> >> changed group as follows: >> >> drwxr-x--- 2 rgeddes www-data 80 2008-02-18 15:18 test >> >> and test appears in the webpage (this makes sense) as the servers are >> running as www-data. >> >> Now if I change the group back to: >> >> drwxr-x--- 2 rgeddes rgeddes 80 2008-02-18 15:18 test >> >> and I add www-data to the rgeddes group in /etc/group, the directory >> fails to show up. This does not make sense to me as www-data is part >> of the rgeddes group and rgeddes has r-x permissions. >> >> Is there a reason why www-data is not being granted rgeddes group >> permissions? >> > > restart Apache. Apache, like any other UNIX process "rembers" some basic > "environmental" stuff, like the (secondary) group membership(s) of the > user it runs under. > > Restarting Apache makes it "refetch" this kind data. > >
