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Re: Development permissions

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"Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> writes:

> Folks:
>
> This is probably a stupid question for many of you, but I've been
> struggling with it since I started using Linux in 1996.
>
> Say you have a directory in which there are development files. A
> number of users will be creating, deleting and modifying the files
> there. This is the type of situation which might have been common on
> old Unix university systems. (Users might be accessing files via
> Samba, NFS, or locally.)
>
> Just to make this more concrete, assume the development tree is in
> /var/www/html/website.
>
> Without setting directory and file permissions to 777, how do you
> allow the above? What combinations of groups, directory
> owners/permissions and file owners/permissions might make this
> possible?
>
> Paul

This situation is exactly what version control systems, especially like
svn and git, were created to handle.

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Development permissions "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-22 05:20 +0200
  Re: Development permissions Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-09-22 05:50 +0200
    Re: Development permissions "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-22 06:20 +0200
      Re: Development permissions David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-09-22 06:30 +0200
      Re: Development permissions Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-09-22 06:40 +0200
      Re: Development permissions Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-09-22 09:30 +0200
  Re: Development permissions Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2021-09-22 05:50 +0200
    Re: Development permissions "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-22 06:20 +0200
      Re: Development permissions Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-22 07:40 +0200
        Re: Development permissions Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-25 08:40 +0200
      Re: Development permissions Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2021-09-22 07:40 +0200
      Re: Development permissions Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-09-22 10:30 +0200
  Re: Development permissions Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-22 09:00 +0200
    Re: Development permissions Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2021-09-24 10:30 +0200
      Re: Development permissions Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-24 11:30 +0200
        Re: Development permissions Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2021-09-24 11:50 +0200
          Re: Development permissions Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-24 15:30 +0200
        Re: Development permissions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-24 14:10 +0200
          Re: Development permissions Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-24 15:10 +0200
            Re: Development permissions Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-09-24 15:50 +0200
            Re: Development permissions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-24 16:10 +0200
  Re: Development permissions Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2021-09-24 04:40 +0200

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