What are the permissions on the files you're trying to edit? 664 would
allow owner/group editing, but readonly by world. If it's 644, then only
owner can edit, but group/world can read.
At 04:05 PM 7/21/2008, you wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08:15AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > is there a way of modifing etcgroup to let me edit files
> > chown'd www:kline as kline? after all, i am in the wheel
> > and operator group.
>
> Presuming you are in the kline group also, and that the files are
> group-writable, you should be fine.
>
> On a fair number of sites I know of, there is a "webadmin" or
> "wwwadmin" group setup which the users who should change webserver
> resources are part of; but the apache www user is not a member of
> this, so it can't change those files itself.
strage, i'm in kline is part of www; but i stil fon'thave
permission for myself---or, indeed, anyone new.
gary
>
> Regards,
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> -Chuck
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