Re: [CentOS] Is it bad for my web document folder to be user accessible?

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 21:22, Dave Gutteridge wrote:

On my computer, really the only user is me, sometimes being a regular user, and sometimes being a super user.

Should I make a group that includes me in regular user mode, or somehow grant permissions to me as an individual.

Individual is easier unless you expect to need to extend access to others.

And... um... how do I do that?

chown -R username target

Is it: chmod 775 -R /var/www/html/

If you need to change access permissions also, the symbolic modes are easier to remember. For example:

chmod u+rw ... add read and write access for user (owner) chmod o+r ... add read access for other (everyone) chmod o-w ... remove write access for other.