[gentoo-user] Re: Allow non root users to edit files owned by root?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

> If you need to allow just one single user to access just one single
> directory, you are better off with using Posix ACLS (NOT regular
> owner, group and perms - that almost never works out right for www data)

Depends.  On a multi-user server I maintain, where every user has a 
~/public_html/ directory, I let apache run PHP scrips with suphp 
(www-apache/mod_suphp) so that files are not written with "www-data" or 
"apache" permissions, but fully belong to the users, like every other 
file they own.  This means there's no need for ACLs or any other kind of 
permission setup.