User rights to update /var/www/

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Aug 26 18:23:39 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 12:29 -0400, James Pifer wrote:
> Once again, thank you all for the replies. Using a symlink in the home
> directory and making them a member of the apache group seems to fit
> the
> bill for me in this case since it's a development machine.

Do pay heed to someone's prior warning about giving users the same group
as the apache software, it's a security risk (accidents as well as
malicious activity).  Better to make a separate webmasters group for the
files that'll be served, and the authors.

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