[Box-Admins] box2:/var/www/files permissions update

[Ken Causey]

On 02/25/2014 01:22 PM, Chris Muller wrote:
> I was unable to create a "4.5" directory as the "updates" user on
> box2.  Owner and Group permission for the "files" directory (rwxr x r
> x) belonged to "website".
>
> In fact, website does not need write access, just read.  "updates"
> needs write access.
>
> So I gave ownership of "files" to the "updates" user.  website still has group.
>
>   - Chris
>
>

While it can certainly be changed the management of the FTP site aka 
Files was assigned to the webteam which had control of the website 
account and could divvy out access to team members as needed.  When this 
failed, anyone with access to the root account (now sudo access) can 
always step in.

The practice in the past was for someone with either website or 
superuser access to create a new directory for the release and give 
updates write access to it.

Ken