The eternal 'how to allow user to edit www-data files' problem.

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 16:56 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 08:52:02AM -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell via
> ubuntu-users wrote:
> > On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 16:11 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > But with the default 022 umask everywhere group members won't be
> > > able
> > > to write all files will they?
> > 
> > That is correct with the default umask. You can have the user
> > change
> > its login umask, if you want the files group writable by default.
> 
> Yes, thanks, that does seem to solve my problem.
> 
> I'm sure I tried playing with the setgid bit before and for some
> reason it didn't work but maybe I just got something wrong.  Anyway
> it
> seems to work as I want now! :-)

Glad to help out. You can also do even finer grain control per
directory with ACLs, but use of the directory setgid bit is simpler for
most use cases.