Re: Development permissions

[Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>]

"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.