edit file with sudo

Question

if i'm not owner

i'm using visual studio editor

i can't change the code in any file in /var/www/html/

because of this command

sudo chown -Rf www-data:www-data /var/www/html/

i need to know how can i be able to change the files

sudo -Rf chown www-data:username /var/www/html/

sudo chmod -Rf 775 /var/www/html/

those lines can help !?

Add yourself to a group that this file belongs to , change permissions to 775 , and you should be able to edit it without sudo — Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, Aug 07 '15 at 22:03
@Serg could you please elaborate that and post it as an answer? Including the usermod command to add the user to the group www-data . — Jos, Aug 07 '15 at 22:56
@Jos I'm on mobile. I can post later or if you wish you can post that yourself. I don't mind — Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, Aug 07 '15 at 23:21
possible duplicate of How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www? — muru, Aug 08 '15 at 09:26

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 08 '15 at 07:00

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The folder /var/www/html is owned by user www-data and group www-data. So, as suggested by @Serg, the solution is to add yourself to the group that owns this file, in this case: the group www-data:

sudo usermod -G www-data username

Then, change permissions of the directory to 775:

chmod -R 775 /var/www/html

and you should be able to edit the file.

answered Aug 08 '15 at 07:00

Jos

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same problem :( – I'm V Aug 08 '15 at 17:07
1- sudo gpasswd -a "$USER" www-data 2- sudo chown -R "$USER":www-data /var/www .... these commands solved the problem thanks all :) – I'm V Aug 08 '15 at 17:23

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