Timeline for chown -R www-data:www-data sets ownership to root
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| Jul 13, 2016 at 1:17 | comment | added | S818 | I temporarily added "www-data" to "maximilian", changed the primary group of "www-data" to "maximilian" and removed "www-data" from "www-data". Still, after executing chmod, the owner stayed root:root. | |
| Jul 13, 2016 at 1:08 | comment | added | Chirag | Try by removing from www-data and adding in other groups and execute commands by sudo | |
| Jul 13, 2016 at 1:05 | comment | added | S818 | There is the user "www-data" inside the group "www-data". However, I temporary added "maximilian" to "www-data" with no effect. And, of course, I am acting as root the whole time. | |
| Jul 13, 2016 at 1:05 | comment | added | Chirag | Or you should try all command from 'sudo' in beginning of every command if not running as root user | |
| Jul 13, 2016 at 1:04 | comment | added | Chirag | adduser maximilian www-data | |
| Jul 13, 2016 at 0:59 | comment | added | Chirag | First You have to add user to group www-data? Then it may be possible. | |
| Jul 13, 2016 at 0:05 | comment | added | S818 | Thanks, but unfortunately not. The first command did nothing as always and the second one removed the write permission for group and others as expected. Also executing the first command another time afterwards did nothing. | |
| Jul 12, 2016 at 23:55 | history | answered | Chirag | CC BY-SA 3.0 |