Permission problem for a user

Question

Hi

When i run this commands

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

and then this one:

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www

My user tokar86a dont have access to upload files any more in the www folder. How can i give him that access? whiteout changing the folder permission i have set above. I need to have that so wordpress works.

Istvan Bodnar · Answer

What is happening here is that the files you upload through FTP are owned by the user you used to upload with and they probably have rwx --- --- permissions so www-data can’t do anything with them. I assume you use VSFTPD as the FTP server. In which case you can find a setting called local_umask in vsftpd.conf which probably equal with 077. That is the permission of the uploaded files. You could change local_umask to 022 which would make the uploaded files have rwx r-x r-x and www-data would be able to read all the files. Don’t forget to restart the FTP server after changing it’s configuration. sudo service vsftpd restart In a production environment I would not recommend setting local_umask in a way that gives write permissions automatically. I would give write permissions specifically by hand to the required directories and users. If you are developing something and not deploying to a production environment you can set local_umask to 000 to speed up the process, but only do this if you doing it on a private development environment!

Woet · Answer

By adding both users to the same group and chowning it to that group.

Istvan Bodnar · Answer

One possible solution is that to change the group to your user’s group. That way www-data and tokar86a will both have write permission. sudo chown -R www-data:tokar86a /var/www

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