changing user pirvilegs in termnial

everydayparadis · 07-07-2004, 09:38 PM

how do i changing user privileges in termnial. and change folder privileges.

Tinkster · 07-07-2004, 09:53 PM

Can you please elaborate on what you're trying
to achieve? The questions leaves plenty of room
for speculation ...

And there's no such thing as privilegs, it's privileges ...
you could try that spell-check button, 2 buttons right
of the "submit reply" one ...

Cheers,
Tink

scuzzman · 07-07-2004, 09:57 PM

It's actually directly to the right of 'Submit Reply'. It's 2 buttons to the right of 'Submit New Thread'.

everydayparadis · 07-07-2004, 10:05 PM

well what i'm trying to do is enable write access to the apache web server www folder for a particular user.

Tinkster · 07-07-2004, 10:17 PM

What are the current permissions on the directory?

ls -l /where/your/www/lives

You could probably create a group webdev, make
that user member of the group and then change
the group-ownership for the relevant directories
and change the permissions

chgrp -R webdev /var/www
find -type f -exec chmod g=rw {} \;
find -type d -exec chmod g=rwx {} \;

Cheers,
Tink

Tinkster · 07-07-2004, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by scuzzman
It's actually directly to the right of 'Submit Reply'. It's 2 buttons to the right of 'Submit New Thread'. :)

O i c ...
I usually DON'T use the Quick Reply entry field at the bottom of the
page for replies, not enough options :)

In the reply to post or quote dialogs you get
Post reply, Preview reply and Spell-Check :)
buttons ...

Cheers,
Tink

everydayparadis · 07-08-2004, 01:32 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tinkster

... make that user member of the group and then change ...

how do i do that?

Tinkster · 07-08-2004, 02:02 AM

edit /etc/group
find your new group
If the last thing you see on the line with the
group is a : append a username, if it's a username,
append a , and your username.

man group
for details :)

Cheers,
Tink