NextCloud: Chmod user folders

gjacobse

A few weeks ago - I had an issue with NC, and I'm finally getting it polished back up. Which reminds me - I need to go make a snapshot of the instance before I get much more done.

That being said, I sftp the files back up to the user folders and ran the appropriate scan post upload. Sadly - I ran into a permissions issue - as >root< was the user that uploaded the files, it needs to have the web-html set as permissions;

root@TuDallasNC:/var/www/html/data# ls -l
total 508
drwxr-xr-x 10 www-data www-data   4096 Dec 31  2019 appdata_ocadq1l3jz0x
drwxr-xr-x  3 root     root       4096 Jul 21 22:19 User13
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data www-data   4096 Dec 31  2019 files_external
drwxr-xr-x  5 www-data www-data   4096 Jul 21 22:20 User9
drwxrwxr-x  3 root     root       4096 Jul 21 22:21 UserNamehere
drwxrwxr-x  5 root     root       4096 Jul 21 22:28 Nothing2Chere
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data      0 Jun 23 22:59 index.html
drwxr-xr-x  3 root     root       4096 Jul 21 22:37 StressOut
drwxrwxr-x  5 root     root       4096 Jul 21 22:39 RedMouse
-rw-r-----  1 www-data www-data 427801 Jun 24 23:57 nextcloud.log
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  38660 Jun 23 22:58 updater.log
drwxr-xr-x  4 www-data www-data   4096 Jun 23 22:59 updater-ocadq1l3jz0x
drwxr-xr-x  4 www-data www-data   4096 Dec 31  2019 user29801

I was going to say I fixed the Read/Write permissions, but I see that is incorrect. I will have to sort that out.

But, www-data should be the owner / group. The syntax I followed did not set it, and I am curious if the Google-Fu lead me wrong.

$ sudo chmod  www-data:www-data 775 -R /var/www/html/data/

Was the command, however it returns an error:


chmod: invalid mode: ‘www-data:www-data’
Try 'chmod --help' for more information.

The examples I have found seems to indicate that my syntax is correct - but it i is obvious it is not.

gjacobse

Oh - no - the syntax is incorrect for ownership.

sudo chown

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@gjacobse said in NextCloud: Chmod user folders:

Oh - no - the syntax is incorrect for ownership.

sudo chown

Yes,

chown to change owner
chmod to change mode (permission)

Remember you can always do man chown to see the syntax.