Hello all. I am using Mandrake 7.1 w/kernel 2.2.15-secure and Apache 1.3.12-12mdk to learn more about serving web sites. Anyway, I have created a user -- Fred for purposes of this conversation -- specifically for administering the web site. Fred only belongs to one group I have created - "web." I can upload files to Fred's home directory without a problem. I've created a partition -- /www -- whose sole purpose is to be the directory where all web sites are kept (i.e. all Apache document roots lead to some point in this directory). I created this when I installed Mandrake. The problem is that root is both the owner and group that has control over /www. Thus, Fred is unable to upload anything to /www. I have used chmod to change file permissions in the past, but can not seem to properly use it to change the owner and group controlling /www. How do I do this? P.S. Just to be clear, /www is a partition just like /var and /usr that was formatted during the Mandrake install. My intent here is noty only to create a "box" that if some were to break in to, they could go no further than the /www partition but also cut down on the necessity of logging is as root. Thank you. ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org