Re: [CentOS] Groups

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:

Todd wrote:

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 > On one of my servers I have a personal account and root. I
disable root for ssh logins and run ssh on an alternative port. When
'scp'ing files I usually scp them up, then ssh in 'su' root and move
them to /var/www/html.

Or sudo. Or you can have a cron job that looks and moves, that runs as root.

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 > I can sftp I realize, but what group can I add my personal
account to, but not root, so I can sftp in and put the files in
/var/www/html?

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With /var/www/html owned by root:root and me loggin in as 'jason' I cannot accomplish this. I don't allow root logins over ssh...

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Would I change /var/www/html/<my domain> owner to myid:mygroup? I am not sure the famifications of this and how Apache would behave, etc.

The whole of /var/www can belong to myid:mygroup as long as the apache

<snip> Not a great idea. Rather, I'd recommend that it be the apache user (apache or httpd, whichever you have it as, and have the directory of a group that you belong to (remember, you can have multiple secondary groups, like, say, group httpd), and make it group writeable.

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