Re: [cobalt-users] 550 /web docs owner

["David Booth" <dbooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great reply! Thanks Bruce. Got to me before my own echo!

So nobody:sitex - that's the answer! Excellent.
I guess when you stick to the gui and ftp (or frontpage!) you never see this
stuff.
I'd figured why suck it all down and then up again when scp was right next
door!

David Booth
Goulburn Internet
http://www.goulburn.net.au
0500522400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Timberlake" <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] 550 /web docs owner


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> > The site has an admin userx
> > If I chown -R userx:sitex * they are added to userx's quota, not
> > site's quota? Who *should* own /web ?
>
> A site's webroot should be owned by 'nobody'...
>
> > If userx uploads to /web who owns those files? (looks like userx to
> > me - and they go on userx's quota)
>
> Yes, the web directory has GUID bit set (drwxrwsr-x), so any valid
> group member can upload files to the directory. The files are
> automatically owned by the group, and count against the user's
> personal quota _and_ the vsite's total quota at the same time.
>
> > So I've allowed 50Mb for the site and 20Mb for userx
>
> Ok. Don't forget that logs count against site quota, and a user's mail
> spool counts against their personal quota...
>
> > The site /web contains 30 Mb and I get userx over quota
>
> If you manually chown'd files to userx and put them over their quota,
> that is the correct outcome.
>
> > Do I have to allocate userquota * number_of_users to the site and
> > juggle what share each admin-enable user has of  /web?
>
> No, it's all automatic.  Whoever gets there (up to the site quota
> total) first "wins"... there's a total quota for the site as a whole,
> and each user in theory can be assigned that same quota as their own.
>
> My general practice is to set the site admin quota the same as the
> site quota, to avoid potential problems like you've run into...
>
> - --
> Bruce Timberlake
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