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How to add a user to www-data (Ubuntu)
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Add a new user to the www-data group | |
In this example, add a new user called vivek to the www-data group, enter: | |
sudo useradd -g www-data vivek | |
### set the password for vivek user ### | |
sudo passwd vivek | |
To verify new settings, enter: | |
id vivek | |
groups vivek | |
The group name www-data is the user's initial login group i.e. vivek has been added to www-data primary group only. | |
www-data supplementary groups membership | |
To add a new user called vivek to supplementary groups called www-data and ftp, enter: | |
sudo groupadd vivek | |
sudo useradd -g vivek -G www-data,ftp vivek | |
sudo passwd vivek | |
To verify new settings, enter: | |
id vivek | |
groups vivek | |
Add a existing user to www-data group | |
Type the following command to add an existing user called vgite to the www-data group, enter: | |
sudo usermod -a -G www-data vgite | |
id vgite | |
groups vgite | |
Above command will add the user vgite to the supplementary group called www-data. Use -a option only with the -G option. |
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