SFTP and Apache – Grant Write Permissions on Same Folders

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I have a centos6 web server where developers also upload by connecting through SFTP. So, to give developer login write permissions, I have change /var/www user to that user. My current permissions are:
developer:root
and with these, SFTP developer login can upload files, but apache can't upload files in them even with 777 permissions. I even tried with setting permissions like developer:apache, but of no avail.

How would I give both Apache and SFTP login write permissions at the same time?

Best Answer

i would recommend you to use acls here:

setfacl -R -m user:apache:rwx directory
setfacl -R -d -m user:apache:rwx directory
setfacl -R -m user:developer:rwx directory
setfacl -R -d -m user:developer:rwx directory

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Linux – How to give write permissions to multiple users

You can change the group of the files:

groupadd webusers
usermod -aG webusers the_user_name
chgrp -R webusers the_directory
chmod g+s the_directory

If this is a RedHat based distribution you can use setfacl to do this without a group and set it to happen by default:

setfacl -R -m user:the_username:rwx directory_name
setfacl -d -R -m user:the_username:rwx directory_name

CentOS / Redhat: Give file permission for apache and vsftp

CentOS 5.5 should have filesystem ACLs on by default, just use setfacl to give 'ftpuser' the rights:

setfacl -R -m u:ftpuser:rwx /var/www/myWebApp

See the man page for setfacl/getfacl if you've never used them before.

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Linux – How to give write permissions to multiple users

CentOS / Redhat: Give file permission for apache and vsftp

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