The general consensus was using system level groups. To me that's a great idea. I just hate having to deal with the whining of my user. The system is used only by two people, myself, and a friend (someone I trust.) It uses pre-built php CMS such as Xoops, phpnuke, and postnuke. So, they need write access to the directories for a short time. (Some of the scripts are installed via a install.php file that is removed after its use.) I am going to try the group idea and see how that goes with the whining user. thanks! eric On Thursday 16 December 2004 02:23 pm, Roy W. Erickson wrote: > Eric, > > What was the general consesus on your posting listed below? > I have the same question... > > Thanks, > > Roy > > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 06:31, Eric Wagar wrote: > > I have an Apache web server with a few virtual hosts. The ftp is handled > > by proftpd, and I have multiple users defined. These users have their > > own uid and gid. The problem comes when Apache is uid apache and need to > > write to the said directory. > > > > I am wondering what other people have done to deal with this. Do people > > just set all the ftp users uid/gid to the same as the Apache uid/gid on > > the system? Obviously this would be an ok solution because apache > > uid/gid != root. > > > > What are the other ways you guys have dealth with this? > > > > Thanks > > eric
