>Hi,
>I think the reason the files are made writable is so that the
>webserver can modify files when the Collector web interface is used to
>manage collections.
>
>If you are not going to use the Collector, I would recommend creating a
>"gsdl" group and only adding users you want to edit collections to that
>group, as you suggested. On a unix platform you could also make the library
>executable "set group ID" so that the executable runs with those group
>permissions as well, especially if there are many users who have accounts
>on that machine.
>
>
John McPherson

>
>
thanks, john.
actually, we were planning to use the greenstone library interface in
creating collections. unfortunately, i'm not familiar with set user
group. how can i library run with a specific group and all the created
files belonging to the user who created them?

ivy