On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 06:24:59PM +0100, Xen wrote: > I am trying to get a webserver to run under my regular user, or at least to > have the website's files under control of my regular user, but the webserver > runs as www-data. > > But it seems I cannot do chgrp as a user. > > Is there any way to achieve this? > > I mean I could add my user's group to the www-data user and I guess then I'd > have access but I don't really see how changing a file's group could be a > security risk. Maybe I should add myself to www-data instead?
Yes, add your regular user to the www-data group, then log out and come back in. The web-server is a door in to your system. Limiting what it can see is preferable. -dsr-
