Hi,

I am running a server running apache. I have created a directory for a website /websites/website01. All files in here must be owned by www-data. However, I wanted to allow some other users to edit and create files in this directory, so I created a group 'customer01-data', let's say. I changed ownership of all the files so that group ownership is 'customer01-data' and in this group user01, user02, user03 are members. This is fine and they are able to edit files so long as the file permissions are set right. However, when they create a new file, it defaults to being owned by user01:user01 and they are unable to change that. Is there a better way to handle this scenario? I did look at previous threads and did not see - though there was so much it is possible I missed something.

Thanks

At first look, if you change the primary group of user01, user02, user03 from default group user0n to the group customer01-data, then files will be created as user0n:customer01-data.
if their umask is 0002 or equivalent, files will be created as "rw-rw-r--" giving to the others members the permission to edit those files too.