[CLUE-Admin] Re: [Fwd: FUN-da-mentals]

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 11:24:11 -0600
Jeffery Cann <fabian at jefferycann.com> wrote:

> Since you told 
> me about the permission problem, it sounds like I didn't give you the
> root pw on the box, so I took care of the redirect.  I can give you root
> pw on Tues.

Mwahahhahhhhahaaa! Yes, I will have _ultimate_ power! <evil grin>

Seriously, though, I neither want, nor need, root. [/me remembers the
discussion on CLUE-Tech earlier about logging in as root] I'm a True
Believer (TM) in the non-root philosophy. What would be much better would
be to add me to the appropriate groups, so that I can work with the files
I need to work with. As CVS exists primarily for the sake of the website,
that's one obvious group. I suppose the group under which the httpd daemon
runs (same as owner of /var/apache/htdocs I presume) would be beneficial
as well. I haven't looked, so I don't know who owns httpd.conf. The other
possibility would be sudo.

Thanks for taking care of that page, Jeff.

jed
-- 
... it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday
facilitate a police state. -- Bruce Schneier