Re: [TCLUG:22626] Establishing Directory Permissions for FTP Uploads

[dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu]

> 
> 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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