Forum OpenACS Q&A: What *nix permissions do you use for admin and development

1: What *nix permissions do you use for admin and development

Posted by Rick Cottle on 01/14/02 05:54 AM

I am going through and setting up my development environment per much
of the excellent documentation that is available. One issue I have
not seen addressed is that of permissions.

For instance, in my installation (per the rpm) the aolserver
directories are all owned by nsadmin:nsadmin. To create new server
directories for instances of OpenACS, I need to either su to nsadmin,
do it as root, or add myself to the nsadmin group, as well as chmod a
bunch of stuff.

I really don't want to muck things up too much from the defaults, yet
also don't believe working as root all of the time is a very elegent
solution. Any recommendations from those who have been there/done
that? TIA!

2: Response to What *nix permissions do you use for admin and development (response to 1)

Posted by Stephen . on 01/15/02 07:41 AM

Add yourself to the nsadmin group (or whatever).

chmod 
g+s directory

. Files and directories created in that directory will be owned by the creating user but the group will be that of the directory. If you chmod g+rwx directory also, then your set.