On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Anthony <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > How do I add myself as co-owner of a directory? I set up a new apache > server and need to transfer files to /var/www/html. The problem is, of > course, I've denied root login but don't have sufficient privs to > login and transfer files under my username. > > How can I fix this? There are a few ways to go about this. There are lots of ways to control access to files and directories on Linux systems. ;-) You could create a group with permissions to edit the directory, and add yourself to it: # create an 'htmleditors' group groupadd htmleditors # add 'anthony' to it usermod -aG htmleditors anthony # change the directory to be owned by the group chgrp -R htmleditors /var/www/html # grant read/write permissions to the group chmod -R g+rw /var/www/html Or you can use POSIX ACLs to just give yourself access: # give 'anthony' Read/Write/eXecute permissions on all files in /var/www/html setfacl -R -m u:anthony:rwX /var/www/html # do the same for directories find /var/www/html -type d | xargs setfacl -R -m d:u:anthony:rwX You can even combine the two: groupadd htmleditors usermod -aG htmleditors anthony setfacl -R -m g:htmleditors:rwX /var/www/html find /var/www/html -type d | xargs setfacl -R -m d:g:htmleditors:rwX See the man pages for the various commands used for more information about what exactly is going on. -T.C. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
