Permission denied on /var/www despite adding user to the owner of directory

Ahdee

6/25/23, 6:26 PM

Hi brand new setup here.

ls -ld /var/www
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 25 18:10 /var/www

so above shows that /var/www belongs to www-data

I then add current user to www-data

sudo usermod -a -G www-data ahdee
groups ahdee
ahdee : ahdee sudo www-data

however while in /var/www I tried this and still got permission denied.

echo "hi" > t.txt
mkdir test

A bit confused because the owner is www-data and ahdee belongs to that group so why can't I write to it?

thanks in advance.

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Ray

6/25/23, 6:32 PM

Did you log out and log back in before you tried your test?

doneal24

6/25/23, 6:43 PM

Group write is not enabled on the directory. `chmod 02775 /var/www`.

Ahdee

6/25/23, 7:21 PM

@doneal24 great thanks, as explained below group members have to write access

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Streunekater

6/25/23, 6:43 PM

The first "www-data" is the owner of the file, the second "www-data" is the group.

In the ls -l, the first block shows the access rights:

drwxr-xr-x
d              it's a directory
 rwx           the owner www-data may read, write and enter the directory
    r-x        members of the group www-data (e.g. you) may read and enter,
               but not write in there (e.g. create a new file)
       r-x     others may read and enter, too, but not write.

So, you'd have to change the permissions, so that group members may write: chmod g+w /var/www

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Ahdee

6/25/23, 7:20 PM

This is perfect and also helps me understand a bit more, thank you. FYI for others, I had to relog back in to get it to work.

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I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Permission denied on /var/www despite adding user to the owner of directory

TH: การอนุญาตถูกปฏิเสธใน /var/www แม้จะเพิ่มผู้ใช้ให้กับเจ้าของไดเร็กทอรี

RO: Permisiune refuzată pe /var/www, în ciuda faptului că ați adăugat utilizator la proprietarul directorului

RU: Отказано в доступе к /var/www, несмотря на добавление пользователя к владельцу каталога

VI: Quyền bị từ chối trên/var/www mặc dù đã thêm người dùng vào chủ sở hữu thư mục

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