Thanks for your reply. I'm not quite clear with what I need to do, though. First of all, if I do this, won't I need to keep doing this everytime I add a file to this directory structure? It seems like there would be an easier way. If this is, indeed, the easiest way, could you outline again who owns what. Secondly, I don't seem to have an adduser command. thanks justin Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote: > ls -l /var/www | grep html > > Usually it has owner and group permissions. chmod 775 /var/www/html && > adduser yourusername groupname > > where groupname is the name of the group that owns the directory. Once you > log off/log on to refresh the group permissions, you should be good to go > for the most part. Because we didn't do the chmod recursivly, exiting > files and subfolders won't have the correct permissions. > > You'll want to use mode 664 on files and 775 on directories. You'll also > need to make sure any files you move to this directory are owned by the > group, not you. You can do this with the chgrp command. > > Probally the safest way to go about things so you don't have to muck with > the default permissions set on the webserver and such. > > Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org > "The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making > a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims > to be trying to take over the world." > -- > Kernel Panic: I have no root and I want to scream. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list