Hi

I have white box, two pc running

added a new user to the system, trying to give my self access to write to /var/www/html using a FTP etc...

So what i did was

[root@www root]# chown -R user_name /var/www/html

[root@www html]# ls -al
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 User_name root 4096 Feb 2 18:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Feb 3 2004 ..


I am able to write to the directory, make other folders etc.

I dont know if this is right.

can any one fill me in please.

TT

One solution is creating a group specifically for users who should be able to create files and directories in /var/www/html.

All commands below are to be executed as root.
1. Create the group: groupadd webbies
This will create a group called webbies. You can name it whatever you want but I find that having non-professional sounding names can help you remember what groups you have creaetd yourself and what ones came with the distribution. Not that it matters much though.

2. Change ownership of /var/www/html and subdirectories: chown -R root.webbies /var/www/html

3. Make sure the webbies group members have write access everywhere in /var/www/html: chmod -R g+rw /var/www/html/*

4. Finally, add yourself and anyone that should have write access there to the webbies group (or whatever you chose to call your group). Open up /etc/group and find the line that begins with webbies, like this:After the last colon you can add a comma-separated list of users:
Users don't become members until they have logged in the next time (so log out and then log in again). Type groups to see a list of groups you are member of.


Håkan

Thank you.

thats the way i was going it before adding a new user then a group called gateway, i added my user to that group then i did the following but i was told it was wrong.
Then

but hey it worked, any way is the above one i did ok to use like that .

TT