For security reasons, I disabled the root user and created a new user to use SSH.
When I use rsync, I rsync to the /home/my-name/my-dir directory and then mv to the /var/www/html/my-dir director, then used sudo chown -R www-data:www-data my-dir.
I’d like to create a Github hook that when I push to the repo, pulls the repo to my droplet.
Q1. Should I pull to /home/my-name/my-dir and them moved to the /var/www/html/my-dir and use chown command to change the owner?
Q2. Is there any tutorial how to set this up?
Thank you.
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Hi there,
What I could suggest is allowing your non-root user to run this one specific command with sudo without being prompted for a password.
You can configure that you can change the sudoers file on your server. The correct way to make changes to the sudoers file is by using the following command:
sudo visudo
At the bottom of the file add the following:
your_user_here ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/chown -R www-data\:www-data /path/to/your-dir
Then save and exit. After that when you run sudo /bin/chown -R www-data\:www-data /path/to/your-dir with your non-user you will not be prompted for your sudo password.
Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby
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