* Re: [gentoo-user] Allow non root users to edit files owned by root?
@ 2011-12-22 15:46 99% ` James Broadhead
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From: James Broadhead @ 2011-12-22 15:46 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 22 December 2011 15:41, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
> On 2011-12-20 11:00 AM, Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:
>>
>> You should probably also restrict which files can be edited (not
>> /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow or /etc/sudoers, for sure!). You can do this
>> with globs. For example:
>> %sudoroot sudoedit/var/www/*
>
>
> Ok, just found out that subdirectories are not included when doing it this
> way, and haven't found a way to include them...
>
> Please tell me there is a way, and I won't have to explicitly define every
> subdirectory under /var/www that they will need to be able to work in...
Perhaps I missed it, but my approach to this would be to create a
'webadmin' group, and change the group of the directory (and
applicable subdirs).
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