[CentOS] Using Samba to share Apache web root, securely

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Trey Dockendorf wrote:
> I'm setting up a shared web server running Apache.  Each web root will
> belong to a department, which has a corresponding Active Directory group
> to give access.  So far I've got samba working and such, but am having
> some trouble wrapping my head around the necessary permissions to make
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> I'd be very interested in knowing how someone has solved a problem like
> this.

What I've done, where developers, for example, need to put updated pages
in, is to have the directories owned by apache/httpd, but the *group* that
they belong to, and make it group writeable.

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