Permissions for var www html

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I have a virtual CentOS server with GoDaddy  and I m having trouble setting up the permissions for  var www html   Users are not allowed to log in as root  or even add themselves to the root group  so here s the corner I ve painted myself into    I changed its owner using the following command  I used the user group that was in httpd conf    chown -R apache apache  var www html  I added my own user to the apache group   usermod -a -G apache myuser  I changed the permissions   chmod 777  var www html -R    This is the only way to give my SFTP account the ability to create  change  and delete files in  var www html  777   The SFTP account uses the same credentials as the ssh account  which means for all intents and purposes they re the same  right    I m obviously new to Linux server admin  but this seems ridiculously insecure  Is there a better way to do all this   Note The website I m planning on putting up here will allow file uploads  cron jobs  etc   so I m guessing that will complicate the necessary permissions as well  Is that correct   Update Using 775 does not appear to work  I can upload overwrite files  but when I just try to delete them  FileZilla gives me this error      rm  var www html index php  permission denied   I have no idea why  but changing back to 777  fixes  this

User · Answer

You just need 775 for  var www html as long as you are logging in as myuser  The 7 octal in the middle  which is for  group  acl  ensures that the group has permission to read write execute  As long as you belong to the group that owns the files   myuser  should be able to write to them  You may need to give group permissions to all the files in the docuemnt root  though   chmod -R g w  var www html

User · Answer

log in as root user   sudo su  password    then go and do what you want to do in var www

User · Answer

I have just been in a similar position with regards to setting the 777 permissions on the apache website hosting directory  After a little bit of tinkering it seems that changing the group ownership of the folder to the  apache  group allowed access to the folder based on the user group   1  make sure that the group ownership of the folder is set to the group apache used   generates for use   check  etc groups  mine was www-data on Ubuntu   2  set the folder permissions to 774 to stop  everyone  from having any change access  but allowing the owner and group permissions required   3  add your user account to the group that has permission on the folder  mine was www-data

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