Group Permissions

tux100 · 09-11-2014, 10:34 AM

I created user "bob"
I added bob to group "www-data"

I updated the website permissions

chown -R www.data.www.data /var/www/
chmod -R 775 /var/www/

I thought bob would be able to write files in /var/www but he cannot. What am I missing ?

TIA

Habitual · 09-11-2014, 10:37 AM

What does

Code:

ls -al /var/www/

show?

tux100 · 09-11-2014, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Habitual

What does

Code:

ls -al /var/www/

show?

permissions were changed to this.
user bob belongs to group www-data

-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 19332 Aug 27 17:44 COPYING
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 3997 Aug 27 17:44 CREDITS
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 77 Aug 27 17:44 FAQ
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 635332 Aug 27 17:44 HISTORY

osucowboy0510 · 09-11-2014, 10:56 AM

the command should be chgrp and not chown

chgrp -R <groupname> <dirname>

yancek · 09-11-2014, 12:34 PM

The permissions you show for /var/www show rwx for the user www-data and only read/execute for the group which user bob belongs to. If you give write permissions to the group www-data, that would work but then any user in the www-data would have write permissions. You can create a sub-directory in /var/www and give user bob ownership. Not sure what you are using this for or what you want to do.