11 Nov
2010
11 Nov
'10
4:54 p.m.
I want to enable two users to write to a specific hiearchy of files and I really can't see an easy way to do it.
To be specific I have a hierarchy of files making up the data files of a wiki which I (mostly) edit directly but also need to be able to edit in the normal wiki fashion. Thus they need to be writeable by the apache2 process (which is user www-data) and directly by the user (which is me, user chris).
Can anyone suggest a way to allow these to be writeable by both users? When a user creates a new file it must be editable by the other user as well so simply creating a common group to which both users belong won't work as, in general, the umask won't give files user write permission.
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Chris Green