Allegedly, on or about 25 March 2014, Rafnews sent: > i'm trying to figure out what is the best approach for files and folders > permissions in case of a shared webserver. > > we are 2-3 developers and we have a server on which we installed Fedora > 20 as web server for our development testing purpose. > > all websites should be stored in /var/www/html/ directory > > now let's say we are 2 devs called: "alain" and "francois" (those are > our fedora user accounts. > > /var/www/html/ owner is root:root > > now what should we do to allow each dev to use FTP and created/delete/ > modify files and folders to create website structure ? > > should we create a group like and add into it devs ? I presume that you want to have those users jointly working on several websites inside that path, not owning their own websites, individually. You can create say a "webmaster" user group (the name is arbitrary, but that example fits tradition), add alain and francois to that group, and have /var/www/html/ owned by that group (/var/www/html doesn't need to be owned by root:root). That takes care of direct access to files (ssh to the server, and working directly on the same machine). And, for ftp, you use a server that can work with group ownerships. If you're stuck with servers that don't handle groups, then you could simply have a webmaster username that owns the files and directories, and have your webmasters ftp into the server using "webmaster" as the logon name (or any other shared name other than their own). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
