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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 SUNOS

chown

chown(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						 chown(1B)

NAME

       chown - change owner

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/chown [-fR] owner[.group] filename...

DESCRIPTION

       chown  changes  the  owner of the filenames to owner. The owner can be either a decimal user ID (UID) or a login name found in the password
       file. An optional group can also be specified.  The group can be either a decimal group ID (GID) or a group name found in the GID file.

       In the default case, only the super-user of the machine where  the file is physically located can change the owner. The	system	configura-
       tion  option {_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED} and the privileges PRIV_FILE_CHOWN and PRIV_FILE_CHOWN_SELF also affect who can change the ownership
       of a file. See chown(2) and privileges(5).

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -f	Do not report errors.

       -R	Recursively descend into directories setting the ownership of all files in each directory encountered.	When  symbolic	links  are
		encountered, their ownership is changed, but they are not traversed.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of chown when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

FILES

       /etc/passwd	       Password file

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       chgrp(1), chown(2), group(4), passwd(4), attributes(5), largefile(5), privileges(5)

SunOS 5.10							    21 Jun 2004 							 chown(1B)
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