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Re: security best practice



On May 2, 8:20 pm, ChadDavis <chadmichaelda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like some advice from the admins.  I'm a developer who admins my own
> environment in a home office.  I get things done, but perhaps not in the
> best fashion.
>
> For instance, I just installed the tomcat server via the debian
> repositories.  By default, all of the files go in under the root ownership
> and group.  I want my developer users to be able to access all of the
> various tomcat files, from logs and conf stuff to startup scripts.  What is
> the "right" way of granting this access to my users?

You can use sudo(btw gksu has a nice GUI). It's abit slow(typing the
password and stuf) but it works for using all root-owned files/
process.

Another way is to add your developer users in the root group and chmod
770 all the files.


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