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I currently have a small Ubuntu Server 12.04 machine (test environment) with about 3 non-root users created. Each user has their own public_html directory under their home...thereby allowing them to deploy multiple apps as named virtual hosts. Each user belongs to the Apache www-data group, set up as follows:
sudo usermod -a -G www-data [username]
sudo chown -R [username]:www-data /home/[username]/public_html
sudo chmod 2750 /home/[username]/public_html
Now as the root user, I am in the process of creating a bash script that will automate the creation of the folders for the VirtualHost under a prompted user's public_html as well as creating an associated entry in /etc/apache2/sites-available/. The script (run with sudo) will prompt for the user ($uzer) and the desired virtual host name ($vhost). So far after running a few checks I eventually get to the following...
mkdir -vp /home/$uzer/public_html/$vhost
mkdir -vp /home/$uzer/public_html/$vhost/www
mkdir -vp /home/$uzer/public_html/$vhost/logs
mkdir -vp /home/$uzer/public_html/$vhost/backups
I need to change the ownership of these newly created folders, so I'm unsure whether I should be doing the following:
chown -vR $uzer:www-data /home/$uzer/public_html/$vhost
chmod 2750 /home/$uzer/public_html/$vhost
My questions:
- Is my folder structure correct/ideal?
- I know I've used recursive (
-R) option, but should I be repeating the same for$vhost/www,$vhost/logsand$vhost/backups? - Am I correct in thinking that the chmod above is probably redundant?
- Is there a way I can run the
mkdircommands as the user$uzer?
I am a bit of a Linux server noob, but have learned a lot in the last few months - this is probably the first shell script I've attempted to write and I still haven't fully mastered Linux permissions.
