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

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 09:31:55AM -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 16:56 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > 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! :-)
> 
> Glad to help out. You can also do even finer grain control per
> directory with ACLs, but use of the directory setgid bit is simpler for
> most use cases.
> 
My existing solution does use ACLs but it's more difficult than simply
using the setgid bit.

-- 
Chris Green