WANTED: Clever solution for Transifex storage

[Thomas Moschny]

2009/3/11 Till Maas <opensource at till.name>:
> On Mi März 11 2009, Colin Walters wrote:
>> 2009/3/11 Till Maas <opensource at till.name>:
>> > On Mi März 11 2009, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>> >> Right now, a stock install of the transifex package
>> >> creates /var/lib/transifex. This directory and everything beneath it is
>> >> currently owned by root:root. What needs to happen is that it needs to
>> >> be read/written by whatever is running Transifex, be that as a
>> >> standalone Django app, via httpd, or some other HTTP server. Frankly, I
>> >> got nothing. Anyone else have any ideas?
>> >
>> > The best solution I found for me if I want to rw access a directory with
>> > different users is to use bindfs:
>> >
>> > http://code.google.com/p/bindfs/
>>
>> ACLs would be a way simpler, built-in-to-the-kernel solution for this
>> problem.
>
> There is no way with ACLs to setup a directory where a group of users has
> complete access to everything. It is still possible for a user to add a file
> that cannot be accessed by other users or cannot be written to.

Isn't that what Default ACLs are for?

So, can't you just use some 'transifex' user (and group) for normal
management, and then additionally allow apache per ACL and Default ACL
access to that dir?


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Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny at gmail.com>