permissions - PHP and FTP

Question

How to setup users/groups so both PHP/Apache and proFTPD has full access to files/dirs?

FTP user

Username: webadmin
User ID: 1001
Home dir: /var/www
Shell: /usr/sbin/nologin
Primary group: www-data

Move home dir if changed: yes
Change user ID on files: home dir
Change group ID on files: home dir
Modify user in other modules: yes

When logging in on the FTP with webadmin all files are listed but with no write rights!?

Answer 1

If you want to give multiple users access to something then you should use groups.

First make sure that all of your necessary web 'users' are members of a certain group, probably www-data.

usermod -a -G www-data webadmin

Add the user 'webadmin' to the 'www-data' group.

Next, change the group of the files to this group:

chgrp -R www-data files/dirs

Recursively set the group of files/dirs to www-data.

Finally, change the permissions of the directory in question to allow full access to all members of its group:

chmod -R g+rwx files/dirs

Recursively give group members read, write and execute permissions to files/dirs