Give permission to folder/file without giveing ownership

This is a totally n00b question but I'm saying good bye to Windows slowly and I've come across where I need to own a directory but I want to give write permission to Smarty (Apache user). Right now I change ownership back and forth. I don't want to give world permissions.

Do i really HAVE to create a group with me and apache in it and give write permission to that group? Is there another way like windows to Select multiple users and give each their own different permissions?


Thanks guys,



Dan

re: Give permission to folder/file without giveing ownership

Have a look at chown and chmod commands. chown changes the file's owner while chmod change the permissions without changing the owner.

re: Give permission to folder/file without giveing ownership

There is no way here like windows,
You can create a group(as you thought) and give the write permission to it.

Regards,
Ash