So, I’ve got a question for you guys. I’m trying to allow selected users to modify files in /Library/WebServer/Documents. And I’d like them to be able to use AFP so they can mount the volume and make the changes directly. And I don’t want every one on the network to be able to see the share, so I’m going to need to turn off Guest Access to that folder. Which means that I’ll need to allow Apache access through either the owner or group so that it can read the folder.

Which leads to my question. How do I combine OD users and local users in a local group? For instance, I have user A in my OD and I want user A and the local www user in the wwweditors group. It seems like I would change to the local directory in Workgroup Manager, create a group that has the www user and User A in it, and then happily let them start editing. But when I do that and make sure the wwweditors group has read/write privileges to /Library/WebServer/Documents, User A can’t write to the folder (even when local). And when I take a look at the results of the groups command in Terminal, wwweditors doesn’t show up as an option.

Any ideas?