[NTLUG:Discuss] su?

[Lance Simmons]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:46:59PM -0500, Fred James wrote:
> Assuming you have your reasons, one answer is "su - username", and then
> the password.

What's the password for services (it's the webserver's account
name) run at startup?
 
> Another answer would be to add the group for the files in question to
> your "ordinary" user's list of secondary groups, but that only works if
> that group has the desired privileges for the files in question.

In this case (which I've tried), the ownership of the file
remains the original user's, and the webserver doesn't want to
serve up files not owned by www. Files can be edited and saved
and chmoded that way, but the webserver only wants to serve
files owned by www.

Lance Simmons