The eternal 'how to allow user to edit www-data files' problem.

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 08:52:02AM -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 16:11 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > But with the default 022 umask everywhere group members won't be able
> > to write all files will they?
> 
> That is correct with the default umask. You can have the user change
> its login umask, if you want the files group writable by default.

Yes, thanks, that does seem to solve my problem.

I'm sure I tried playing with the setgid bit before and for some
reason it didn't work but maybe I just got something wrong.  Anyway it
seems to work as I want now! :-)

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Chris Green