www-data permissions on /var/www

[Knute Johnson]

On 11/25/2012 00:37, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 11/25/2012 02:21 AM, katrina warsaw wrote:
>> Hello!:
>>
>> You must think that human users have their userids upper of 1000.
>> www-data user is really the user who admins the website, is the user and
>> group of your webserver , and  your web's user or your web's visitors
>> are from group "others".
>> I wish this helps you!
>
> Correct, user AND group must be set to www-data.
> sudo chmod -R www-data:www-data /var/www
> You'll be good to go if everything, directories AND data files, are set
> in that fashion. Ric

What do you do if you need a directory writable by someone other than 
www-data?  In my case a web cam that needs to upload images?

Thanks,

knute...