File permissions changed but group user can't write in them

Asked Mar 23 '17 at 23:39

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I have done the follow:

this is the status of the permission drwxrwxr-x 3 root www-data 4096 Mar 22 23:11 html

The groups my user is in ubuntu : ubuntu adm dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio dip www-data video plugdev netdev lxd

But if I do touch test it just gives me a permission denied. Am I missing something.

As for a little background, I'm running a Ubuntu server on AWS. I'm also trying to give my apache user writing permission in the html folder.

asked Mar 23 '17 at 23:39

A. L

@StephenRauch what do you mean? – A. L Mar 24 '17 at 00:17
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@StephenRauch Yeah, everything is just set to 775, `www-data` group should have full permission – A. L Mar 24 '17 at 00:19
When you do your `touch test` are you sure the directory is correct? Have you tried a full path? – Stephen Rauch Mar 24 '17 at 00:21
@StephenRauch yes, whether I do a full path or am directly in the folder, nothing works – A. L Mar 24 '17 at 00:24
yeah, but I don't want my public html folder to be writable to everyone who accesses it – A. L Mar 24 '17 at 00:33
Did you reconnect after adding `www-data` to the groups your user belongs to? See http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/6387/203203 – xhienne Mar 24 '17 at 01:13
@xhienne that was it – A. L Mar 24 '17 at 01:15

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