I'm new to Linux admin'ing. I created a user named webadmin and I want to give it permission to read/write in the /var/www/html directory.
How do I go about doing this?
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What distribution?– SvenSep 12, 2011 at 1:16
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serverfault.com/questions/184548/…– quantaSep 12, 2011 at 2:16
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Personally, I would set the ownership of /var/www/html to apache. You can do this by:
chown apache /var/www/html
Next, I would create a group of let's say "Web admins":
groupadd webadmins
Add the user webadmin to the newly created group:
usermod -G webadmins webadmin
Add group permissions to the newly created group:
chmod g+rw /var/www/html
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On Debian-based distributions, this approach will fail as they run Apache as user/group
www-data:www-data, not asapacheby default.– SvenSep 12, 2011 at 1:16 -
Note that files and directories created by a user will be owned by the user's primary group. In order to preserve these group permissions for users who don't have apache as their primary group, you should also set g+s on the directory (and any pre-existing subdirectories). This will ensure that any file created underneath, regardless of who creates it or what their memberships are, are owned by the same group that owns the directory they're created under. Sep 12, 2011 at 2:06
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1I don't have permission to "comment" yet so I'll just expand on @Richardp's answer to save anyone from following blindly and then having to undo later (my own newbie mistake!). In case
webadminneeds to be in multiple groups, don't forget the-aflag:usermod -a -G webadmins webadmin-- and regarding @jgoldschrafe's comment, in case you want to modify only directories,sudo find . -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;Mar 5, 2013 at 15:22