>
> 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?
>
Well, you have some options:
1) give fred ownership of /www
chown fred.web /www
2) give the web group group-ownership of /www and then make the directory
setGID
chgrp web /www ; chmod g+rwx /www ; chmod g+s /www
HTH,
Gabe
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UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery
U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota
Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu
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