On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:08 -0500, Richard Geddes wrote:
Thanks for the response.
I set up a directory under the main DocumentRoot called test
drwxr-xr-x 2 rgeddes rgeddes 80 2008-02-18 15:18 test
and it appeared in a directory listing in the webpage of my main
DocumentRoot.
Changed permissions as follows:
drwxr-x--- 2 rgeddes rgeddes 80 2008-02-18 15:18 test
and test disappears from the webpage (this makes sense)
changed group as follows:
drwxr-x--- 2 rgeddes www-data 80 2008-02-18 15:18 test
and test appears in the webpage (this makes sense) as the servers are
running as www-data.
Now if I change the group back to:
drwxr-x--- 2 rgeddes rgeddes 80 2008-02-18 15:18 test
and I add www-data to the rgeddes group in /etc/group, the directory
fails to show up. This does not make sense to me as www-data is part
of the rgeddes group and rgeddes has r-x permissions.
Is there a reason why www-data is not being granted rgeddes group
permissions?
restart Apache. Apache, like any other UNIX process "rembers" some basic
"environmental" stuff, like the (secondary) group membership(s) of the
user it runs under.
Restarting Apache makes it "refetch" this kind data.
