Apache/Linux permissions issue

July 24, 2006 8:28 PM

How do I set permissions on a Fedora Core 5 system so that two different users can create, edit, and delete files in the web root (/var/www/html), yet all files retain the ownership of apache:apache?

I would settle for just username:apache, as long as the users can still edit each other's files.

I have already added the users to the apache group in /etc/group

They can currently edit any files owned by apache:apache, and can create new files, but the new files are assigned an ownership of username:username by default. This means they have to manually chown their files if they want the other person to be able to edit them.

I hope I am explaining this well enough...

posted by willc to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Best answer: change all the dirs to be g+sxw, and group ownership will be maintained. User edited files should end up user:apache.
posted by alikins at 8:36 PM on July 24, 2006

Response by poster: Thanks...you are a hero. That seems to have done the trick.
posted by willc at 8:41 PM on July 24, 2006