how to know webserver id

[jeisma]

hi!

i need to set certain permissions of the webserver group on a folder. if i do an ls, i see only 1000 as user and group. i suppose that is the admin. how would i know the webserver user/group id and set its permissions and ownership to the folder?

thank you!

on mdk10.1

[sdousley]

the user and group can be found from the

ls -al

command.

Output will look simething like this:

[quote]
sdousley@homer:/var/www/localhost/htdocs> ls -al
total 274816
drwxr-xr-x 12 sdousley users 4096 Oct 28 23:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 20 01:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x 11 sdousley users 4096 Oct 12 19:14 blog
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 899 Jul 9 17:21 form2.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 sdousley users 4096 Jul 9 16:21 forms
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 364804 Oct 28 23:55 homepage.sql
drwxr-xr-x 2 sdousley users 4096 Oct 18 22:29 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 475045 Oct 28 23:59 images.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 sdousley users 4096 Oct 18 19:09 includes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1443 Sep 20 00:58 index.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 349 Oct 14 21:17 index.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 349 Oct 28 23:54 index2.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 15 Jun 13 21:05 info.php
drwxr-xr-x 4 sdousley users 4096 Oct 29 00:02 mysql
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Aug 23 12:17 mythweb
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 7258 Jun 21 14:25 neil.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 sdousley users 4096 Aug 22 11:32 odbc
drwxr-xr-x 7 sdousley users 4096 Jun 13 22:18 phpmyadmin
drwxr-xr-x 5 sdousley 1000 4096 Aug 22 23:02 phpsysinfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 1456 Oct 18 19:02 projects.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 0 Oct 13 21:43 projects2.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 964 Oct 18 17:56 rss_feeds.php
drwxrwxr-x 3 sdousley users 4096 Jul 4 16:46 sms
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 279680102 Sep 1 12:42 tarball.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 502856 Oct 10 19:30 title
-rw-r--r-- 1 sdousley users 560 Oct 22 15:40 webcam.php
sdousley@homer:/var/www/localhost/htdocs>
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There you can see that the folder "." (/var/www/htdocs) is owned by sdousley and the group users. also, that the owner user has rwx permissions where the users group has r-x as does the other users.

If u wanna change the owner, you use the

chown

command. say you wanted to own a file to the user "wwwrun" and group "www" you would run:

chown wwwrun&#58;www <file>

Or if you wanted to own the entire webroot, use the -R (recursive) flag like this:

chown wwwrun:www . -R

Note the "." in there.

To change the permissions, use the

chmod

commandessentually the same as chown, but instead of user:group put the permissions you want. (eg 664 for rw-w--r--)

Anything u dont understand, let me know, i'll try and expand on this explanation

[jeisma]

hi!

how would you know the user id of the webserver? apache in my case.


thank you!

[sdousley]

cat /etc/passwd | grep apache

In my example:

apache:81:81:apache:/home/httpd:/bin/false

the userid is 81

[jeisma]

great! thank you!!!