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Old 4th July 2013
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Default Best way to do webserver permissions for multiuser?

I have a webserver with multiple users, nginx runs as www and php-fpm runs scripts as particular users. Users sites go in /var/www/sites/username and this works. I'm wondering what the most secure way to do permissions is.
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What is your definition of "most secure"?

What method(s) are you using for authentication?

What permissions do you want to grant?
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Old 5th July 2013
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Are you referring to "permissions" as folder/file permissions?
If you want individual user files to be owned only by the users then chmod -R 600 and chown -R user.wheel /var/www/username?
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I want files owned by users, but accessible by the webserver for reading. I think having them owned by the user but with the group www as I'm doing now works. However I'm not quite sure if new files will be owned by group www without the user in that group. fpm runs as users, so php config files can be set readable only by the user to prevent other users screwing around in the database.

If files in a directory owned by a user but with group www can be created and whatnot (for everything a user would want to do with their website), and I don't need to put users in the group www it would be great. That way users can only see their files, and nginx can see everything it needs.
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I just realized I can put www in the users groups. This should do the job, I think.
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Old 10th July 2013
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Just for the record the best way actually seems to have directories owned by www in with the users group for example chown www:john /var/www/sites/johntate.org and chmod 570 /var/www/sites/johntate.org
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