How to add $USER to www-data group for me to edit the files freely on my project?

Asked Nov 01 '16 at 07:22

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I just installed a fresh Ubuntu 16.10 and just finished setting up LAMP Stack. currently my Sublime Text keeps asking me authentication every time I edit a file.

Lamp Stack was installed using root user.

my /var/www/projects currently have www-data:www-data for it to work properly.

but I can't edit the files freely it keeps asking my password every time I hit save.

should I install Sublime Text as super user?

edited Nov 01 '16 at 08:33

asked Nov 01 '16 at 07:22

Skeeith22

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Add user to existing Group ? – Zanna Nov 01 '16 at 07:23
apparently it didn't fixed my problem. sublime text still keeps asking authentication every time I edit my files on my project. – Skeeith22 Nov 01 '16 at 08:02
my user and permission on my /var/www is currently www-data:www-data – Skeeith22 Nov 01 '16 at 08:05
Did you login again after adding your user to the group? – muru Nov 01 '16 at 09:20
yes I did still not working the command I did was sudo usermod -a -G www-data $USER – Skeeith22 Nov 01 '16 at 11:40

How to add $USER to www-data group for me to edit the files freely on my project?

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