User rights to update /var/www/

[James Pifer]

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 03:53 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 12:29 -0400, James Pifer wrote:
> > Once again, thank you all for the replies. Using a symlink in the home
> > directory and making them a member of the apache group seems to fit
> > the
> > bill for me in this case since it's a development machine.
> 
> Do pay heed to someone's prior warning about giving users the same group
> as the apache software, it's a security risk (accidents as well as
> malicious activity).  Better to make a separate webmasters group for the
> files that'll be served, and the authors.
> 

Well, how do you do this? Right now root is the owner of the files and
apache is the group assignment. How do I give others rights to update
the files in a safe manner?

Thanks,
James