Linux – Ubuntu : Add, edit, delete in var/www directory issue

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I just installed Ubuntu with LAMP, to use it as development and test server.

Under terminal and using : sudo, I created a php test file and it's working, but I can't copy files using the graphical interface of Ubuntu to the var/www directory.

I can only Create, Copy, Moving files under Terminal using sedo.

How to give the default user permissions to manage the www directory ?

Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

There are many ways to do that but you can set group permissions of /var/www to www-data (rwx) for example (apache's user and group) and you can give the www-data group to your user.

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What User Should Own /var/www on Ubuntu 9.04 Server?

So, should www-data user be the owner of /var/www

Why is the apache process run by www-data, but the /var/www owned by root? Is there some risk to making www-data own the folder and run the process?

Your web server is running as www-data. If apache has the ability to write to /var/www and you have configured something incorrectly, or your running a buggy web application, or apache itself has an exploitable bug, then an evil person on the Internet would be able to write things to /var/www. Whenever possible you should always give service accounts the least privileges they need to operate.

is there something even better than the two solutions I've seen?

Create a new group, and change the ownership of the /var/www to root:group. Add all user that need to publish to that folder to the group. You might also want to mark the folder with the setgid bit and adjust the umask of your users so anything they write to this folder will be writable by anyone else in that group.

Ubuntu – Setting umask for www-data user (run via sudo) on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Have you tried setting it via /etc/sudoers itself? As per sudoers(5):

   umask_override  If set, sudo will set the umask as specified by sudoers
                   without modification.  This makes it possible to
                   specify a more permissive umask in sudoers than the
                   user's own umask and matches historical behavior.  If
                   umask_override is not set, sudo will set the umask to
                   be the union of the user's umask and what is specified
                   in sudoers.  This flag is off by default.

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