Re: newbie question

[Mike Schienle <mgs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 20, 2003, at 01:21 PM, Terry Wilson wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I have the server sitting here alongside my production machine, and 
> usually edit the pages in a text editor right on the server. I have 
> changed the Owner of the website directory I'm dealing with to my 
> user account, and left the Group as www. Now I can do as I please 
> with the files and folders. Is this okay, as long as the Group is 
> www? I'm still a little fuzzy on the permissions stuff.

Hi Terry -

I'm no security expert, but that's the way I have things running on 
my system. For the record, you can change the group, just remember 
that if the webserver user (www) is writing files through CGI's or 
whatever, it will not have permission to write them. The www user 
just needs to be able to read the files to serve them.

Mike Schienle

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