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Old 10-10-2011
NIS user in local group

I have root access on a linux (RH5.4) server within an NIS setup that I don't control. I have an NIS account that creates directories on my local node that I want to be writable by my local apache account.

The NIS account is only a member of the "users" group and the local apache account is not, nor do I want it to be. NIS account umask is set to 2, and the directories that get created are 775. I could locally change the NIS account's umask to 0 but I feel like there has to be a better solution than making the directories world-writable.

Is it possible to create a local group and locally add my NIS account and my local apache account to that group, and then make that group default for the NIS account?

How would I do that?
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Old 10-10-2011
You can certainly make the user a member of the group that that the web server runs as... as for creating files outside of apache but as that NIS user, but using the different group from their default group on creates, you can see if you have a newgrp or sg command and see if that might work for you (?). And there's always the chgrp command...
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