>Solution:
>Configure Samba with a share to that web directory.
>Change permissions to allow read, write and modify to
>the directory. Lock Samba share down to two users who
>may access the share. Add the users who can access
>the directory to the group that apache is part of.
>
>Added Stuff: Authorized users may either browse (map
>drive) to the samba share, and edit the files, create
>directories, etc. Authorized users may also SCP
>(WinSCP) their files and directory trees to the web
>server without messing up all the permissions.
>
>I'm sure there are other options, and I would like to
>hear what others are doing. Afterall, I'm not the
>only one in the world who has had the same request.
>
>
This is exactly the problem that WebDAV was designed to solve. Apache
has a module to support authorized users posting pages through WebDAV,
and most web development tools (Netscape Composer, Quanta+) support
this, and I would assume Dreamweaver and FrontPage.
--ronan
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