Fixing permission settings on www folder

Hi Dizzzy,

From what I understand, you want to allow multiple users to edit the same directory, is that correct?

*There are two ways to do this : *

• Add the users to the www-data’s group
• Add the users to the sudoers group

Add the users to the www-data’s group

You can create new users and add them to the www-data’s group. That way the new users will have read/write access to the folders with ownership www-data.

You’ll start by creating the user by using the adduser command

sudo adduser exampleuser

Next step would be to add the new User Account to the needed the relevant group

 sudo usermod -a -G examplegroup exampleusername

Where the examplegroup is www-data.

Add the users to the sudoers group

You’ll start by creating the user by using the adduser command

sudo adduser exampleuser

Then use the usermod command to add the user to the sudo group

sudo usermod -aG sudo exampleuser

Lastly, you can use test if everything was done correctly by using the su command

sudo su - username

Once you are run you can execute something like:

sudo ls -la /etc/www/html

If the directory is listed then you are good to go.

There is something I like to point it. If you add your users to the sudoers group, they’ll have access to all files on your server not just /etc/www/html. If this is not something you want, I would suggest using the first method.

Kind regards, Kalin D.