[SOLVED] Create a New User with home dir set to /var/www/html/?

wh33t · 07-15-2015, 08:21 PM

Hi LQ,

I have to give access to a web designer to /var/www/html/. I don't use or want FTP installed so I wanted to create a new user called designer and set their home directory to /var/www/html.

1. Will this somehow change the ownership and permissions of the files and directories /var/www/html to designer?

2. Is there anyway I can sandbox this account to only be able to see/read/write inside of /var/www/html

Thanks for your advice.

frankbell · 07-15-2015, 09:11 PM

I don't know whether you could make /var/www/html his home directory, but that strikes me as a less than optimal approach. You could softlink to /var/www/html from his /home directory and give him read-write permissions to /var/www/html, but I'd have to research the best way to give him the requisite permissions--it's not something I know off the top of my head. Perhaps someone who does know that will look in on this thread.

wh33t · 07-15-2015, 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

I don't know whether you could make /var/www/html his home directory, but that strikes me as a less than optimal approach. You could softlink to /var/www/html from his /home directory and give him read-write permissions to /var/www/html, but I'd have to research the best way to give him the requisite permissions--it's not something I know off the top of my head. Perhaps someone who does know that will look in on this thread.

How would I go about softlinking like that? I've heard of linking but never done it before.

wh33t · 07-16-2015, 02:17 AM

Ok, I've created a symbolic link for the designers home dir to the /vaw/www/html/ but when I log in as that user I can't edit any of the files.

Do I want to add the designer user to www-data group? Would that give it read/write/create permissions?

wh33t · 07-16-2015, 02:50 AM

I solved it by making a group called webedit, adding the new user and www-data to the group, then changing the ownership of the web directory to the webedit group, then changed the permissions so that webedit could edit the files. Viola! All working now. Thanks for the help.