www-data as chown but still remain write access as other user(s)

Hi,

you can create a new group

groupadd www-pub

add your (sudo) user and www-data to this group

usermod -a -G www-pub www-data
usermod -a -G www-pub username

change directory owner

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

change permissions for the directory

chmod 2775 /var/www

the “prefix” 2 is a Set group ID bit, which causes the group to be copied to all new files and folders created in that folder. This does not work recursively, so you need to set it for existing folders manually

find /var/www -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} + # set directories to 2775
find /var/www -type f -exec chmod 0664 {} + # set files to 0664

It works and allows you to create a file and all files created there from FTP is with username:www-pub but even after placing that file not allows you delete that file as in this case again it shows permission denied.

Any Suggestions

Hi,

you can add your (sudo) user to the same group as www-data and then add read/write/execute permissions to the directory (775) for this group. Something like this: http://serverfault.com/a/65416