fix cpanel permission

README.md

to fix all permissions

chmod +x fixperms
for i in `ls -A /var/cpanel/users` ; do ./fixperms $i ; done

fixperms

#!/bin/bash
# source: https://www.casbay.com/guide/kb/script-to-fix-cpanel-account-permissions-2

if [ "$#" -lt "1" ]; then
  echo "Must specify at least one user"
  exit 1
fi

for user in "$@"
do
  HOMEDIR=$(getent passwd "$user" | cut -d: -f6)

  if [ ! -f "/var/cpanel/users/$user" ]; then
    echo "$user user file missing, likely an invalid user"
  elif [ -z "$HOMEDIR" ]; then
    echo "Couldn't determine home directory for $user"
  else
    echo "Setting ownership for user $user"
    chown -R "$user":"$user" "$HOMEDIR"
    chmod 711 "$HOMEDIR"
    chown "$user":nobody "$HOMEDIR/public_html" "$HOMEDIR/.htpasswds"
    chown "$user":mail "$HOMEDIR/etc" "$HOMEDIR/etc/"*/shadow "$HOMEDIR/etc/"*/passwd

    echo "Setting permissions for files and directories for $user"
    find "$HOMEDIR" -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; -print
    find "$HOMEDIR" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; -print
    find "$HOMEDIR" -type d -name cgi-bin -exec chmod 755 {} \; -print
    find "$HOMEDIR" -type f \( -name "*.pl" -o -name "*.perl" \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -print

    chmod 750 "$HOMEDIR/public_html"

    if [ -d "$HOMEDIR/.cagefs" ]; then
      chmod 775 "$HOMEDIR/.cagefs"
      chmod 700 "$HOMEDIR/.cagefs/tmp"
      chmod 700 "$HOMEDIR/.cagefs/var"
      chmod 777 "$HOMEDIR/.cagefs/cache"
      chmod 777 "$HOMEDIR/.cagefs/run"
    fi
  fi
done