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Operating Systems Linux Debian Help request. FTP user to var/www/html Post 302768745 by Azrael on Saturday 9th of February 2013 11:21:21 AM
Old 02-09-2013
From the man page on chown:

Quote:
-R, --recursive
operate on files and directories recursively
This means you gave ownership privledges to "piweb" and "webuser" to /var/www and all its sub-directories. If this is what you are trying to accomplish.

To check which user owns the files use this:
Code:
ls -l

This will show the user who owns the files in the current directory.

The syntax you have used is correct for Debain and CentOS. However, you can shorten this by using this:
Code:
chown -R piweb. /var/www/

Instead of:
Code:
 chown -R piweb:piweb /var/www/

If you need to change permissions on files or directories you will need to use chmod instead of chown. I should warn you that using 777 permissions on a file viewable to the web is very dangerous. You would be giving the entire Internet read, write, and execute permissions on these files which is a huge security risk. I would strongly suggest using 755 or 644 permissions instead which should allow you the same functionality, but with better security.

If you want full read, write, and execution access remotely it would be far safer to use SSH or VNC with a user and then login to root. However, for the purposes of FTP this you should be fine with just using 755 and 644.
Last edited by Azrael; 02-09-2013 at 12:41 PM.. Reason: Emote tranucated my text
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

dh_fixperms

DH_FIXPERMS(1)                                                       Debhelper                                                      DH_FIXPERMS(1)

NAME

       dh_fixperms - fix permissions of files in package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_fixperms [debhelperoptions] [-Xitem]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_fixperms is a debhelper program that is responsible for setting the permissions of files and directories in package build directories to
       a sane state -- a state that complies with Debian policy.

       dh_fixperms makes all files in usr/share/doc in the package build directory (excluding files in the examples/ directory) be mode 644. It
       also changes the permissions of all man pages to mode 644. It removes group and other write permission from all files. It removes execute
       permissions from any libraries, headers, Perl modules, or desktop files that have it set. It makes all files in the standard bin and sbin
       directories, usr/games/ and etc/init.d executable (since v4). Finally, it removes the setuid and setgid bits from all files in the package.

       When the Rules-Requires-Root field has the (effective) value of binary-targets, dh_fixperms will also reset the ownership of all paths to
       "root:root".

OPTIONS

       -Xitem, --exclude item
           Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from having their permissions changed. You may use this option multiple
           times to build up a list of things to exclude.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

11.1.6ubuntu2                                                       2018-05-10                                                      DH_FIXPERMS(1)
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