This guide ensures correct user permissions, allowing the new user to log in and edit files located in /var/www directories
- Firstly - Log in to a new shell window or open the terminal.
- Now, lets set an enviroment variable in the current shell window:
NAME=ops
- These next set of commands can be run co-currently but first lets see what each command does.
- This next command creates a new user and adds them to the groups
adm&sudo, followed by thepasswdcommand that allows us to set a password for this new user:
sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash -G adm,sudo $NAME && sudo passwd $NAME
- Now we want to change the primary group of this new user to
www-data:
sudo usermod -g www-data $NAME
- Next we can check that our current changes have worked:
groups $NAME
- And finaly, we want to change the group permissions of the /var/www folder to ensure we can freely edit files contained in these locations at will, either by logging in with the new user, or switrching to them using the
su $NAMEcommand, where$NAMEis the new username you created.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www/html
Tip
you could also set the new users home directory to the /var/www folder if desired like this:
usermod -d /var/www $NAME