dmcqu009 created page: lab 12 authored by Dan McQuillan's avatar Dan McQuillan
...@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ N.B. file permissions on igor: see next slide ...@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ N.B. file permissions on igor: see next slide
## file permissions on igor ## file permissions on igor
* th web user on igor is 'nobody' (verify this yourself with 'ps aux | grep httpd') * th web user on igor is 'nobody' (verify this yourself with `ps aux | grep httpd`)
* we don't have permission on igor to change group ownership of directories to nobody * we don't have permission on igor to change group ownership of directories to nobody
* however, your directories will have 'student' as the group, and this includes 'nobody' * however, your directories will have 'student' as the group, and this includes 'nobody'
* so we just need to change the group permissions * so we just need to change the group permissions
* the command 'chmod g+w' will make it group-writeable (& therefore writeable by the server) * the command `chmod g+w` will make it group-writeable (& therefore writeable by the server)
there's some other useful information at https://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/intranet/it/dept-faq.html there's some other useful information at https://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/intranet/it/dept-faq.html
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