[tech] Permissions for publishing minutes & website stuff

[Matt Johnston]

Just adding committee group to "webservices" user might work, since that's what apache runs as?

Matt

> On Wed 3/4/2019, at 10:41 pm, Felix von Perger <frekk at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Regarding committee permissions and publishing minutes - there are a 
> couple of things I've noticed that break stuff in various ways.
> 
> Firstly, the minutes archive under 
> /services/http/infobase/committee/YYYY/ is generally owned by group 
> committee. Unfortunately the way the staticgen ucc-parser script works, 
> it requires write permissions for either the webservices user or the 
> webmasters group to generate the static site pages.
> 
> Whilst committee can edit/update pages under that directory, the content 
> displayed on the website won't be able to update (since it can't write 
> to committee-group owned files). Changing the group ownership to 
> webservices fixes the display/staticgen issue, but then committee can no 
> longer write to the relevant files. Catch 22.
> 
> My suggestion at this point is to either add the committee group to 
> webmasters outright (as either a temporary or permanent fix), or to 
> configure a separate committee-owned, web-accessible archive (something 
> that was in the works last year), where the minutes could go instead.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> - [FVP]
> 
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