[wellylug] Setting up a simple web server

[David Antliff]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, John Durham wrote:

> I'm assuming with permissions at755, it didn't allow drag and drop
> copying. With 777 it did.

If you are not the Owner of a directory and you are not in the Group, then 
you can only create/save files in that directory if the World/Other 
permissions are at least '+w'.

e.g. ('ls -l' output)

User 'dantliff' can write files in this directory:
drwxr-xr-x    2 dantliff dantliff   4096 Aug  3 12:57 html

   ^  - allowed by this 'w'


User 'dantliff' cannot (note ownership is now root:root):
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root       4096 Aug  3 12:57 html

         ^  - no 'w'


-- 
David.