On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 at 11:18am, John Hinton wrote > How do I deal with this? > > A content management system which writes to a user's directory as user > apache. > > A customer that wants to be able to FTP through a FTP client and vsftpd those > same files up and down, which is presently set to work with only their > username. > > I don't want everything set 777 or even 707. Is there a way to allow a > particular user to download and upload files owned by apache, and I would > assume, when uploading, those files will need to be chown apache so the CMS > can access and update them? > > I'm looking for a best solution which is not going to be troublesome in the > future and which is not going to have adverse effects on security. I always use ACLs in a case like that. 'man setfacl'. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University