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I have a directory (With sub directories and files) that I would like to setup so that:

-Users of an 'editors' group can rw- any file and rwx any dirs.

-Users of www-data can r-- files and r-x dirs.

But there doesn't seem to be a way to do this. Can I set owner to be the 'editors'? Or is the only realistic way of doing this to just treat www-data's access as 'other'?

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    I'd suggest you look into linux filesystem ACLs.
    – EEAA
    Jan 13, 2015 at 22:58
  • Thanks, I know about ACL's, I just wanted to know if it was possible to do it without them. I have seen people refering to making the owner a group, not a user?
    – Myforwik
    Jan 14, 2015 at 0:03

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Before ACLs were introduced, there was an old trick to do this, but not fully equivalent to ACLs - you could create a custom group for accessing your particular directory, and add the appropriate users to it, repeat for each directory. The only limitation is that all the users will share the same access level per group, and each directory can have only one group owner. So if you want your permission set to be really flexible and complex, POSIX ACls are your friends.

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