So what I have already is a user by the name of “nginx” and I’m wanting to have this go into a certain directory, being on another mounted drive called “devwork” I’m wanting it to have access to basically only need access to that one directory, which will be called website.
So the structure would look like /home/nginx/somethinghere?/devwork/website
Meaning it will also need access to allow the user to run the website and have all the bells and whistles a website would need to do.
However I’m not entirely sure on how I would do this, someone from an earlier topic told me to do this this way:
Make a dedicated partition on it, a filesystem too ;), and mount it to /home/that_users_name
or
just create one partition
and one dedicated directory on it
and mount that directory to /home/that_users_name
That way, the entire drive capacity is accessible to it
but you can create other directories on that drive and mount them to other places
using the drives capacity for those as well.
But like I said above I have no idea on where I would begin. Since I’m still learning, I talked to a friend of mine and they said it would be hard for me since I’ve not worked with Linux extensively. But they also mentioned to get something like this I would need to work with a program called “gparted”.
I’m honestly looking for someone to point me in the correct direction, since I’m just wanting to make this secure and also just let me and a friend mess around with HTML, CSS and JScript and anything else that may crop up.
(I also intend in installing Discourse behind nginx for some community stuff.)
You need a structured approach.
Before you set up your webserver and such
be clear about where you will put it - and make sure that that location and user account is how you want it.
Where and how is your “devwork” drive mounted currently?
I see sorry about that, I was unsure if the UUID would get into the wrong hands or not and be used in a malicious way. Can never be too careful with stuff on the web after all. ^.^
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 931.5G 0 part /home/bloodshotpico/mounts/storage
sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk
sdb1 8:17 0 931.5G 0 part /home/bloodshotpico/mounts/games
sdc 8:32 0 931.5G 0 disk
sdc1 8:33 0 931.5G 0 part /home/bloodshotpico/mounts/devwork
sdd 8:48 0 232.9G 0 disk
sdd1 8:49 0 300M 0 part /boot/efi
sdd2 8:50 0 232.6G 0 part /
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
mark/highlight all of it - not line by line
and format it a s “preformatted text” this button </>
it will then appear here as it appeared on your screen
I want to use the whole drive as devwork but the nginx account won’t need access to all that storage since it will only be needing to run a webserver.
I have other projects on that drive hence the name, the entire drive is for devwork however there are different dev projects I’m working on, for instance I have game servers on there and I’m going to be setting up some java and maybe python projects later on.
TLDR; Entire drive is used for devwork, but nginx only needs to be in the webside of the drive.
Then it seems you are all set - and can turn to setting up your software.
I’ll not be able to help with that apart from pointing at the Arch wiki where probably all of that is described in detail.
now, the whole of /dev/sdc1 is mounted to /home/bloodshotpico/mounts/devwork
sdc1 8:33 0 931.5G 0 part /home/bloodshotpico/mounts/devwork
You’d need to change the ownership of the “devwork” directory (recursively)
to your user bloodshotpico
You can see and compare:
ls -al /dev/sdc1
ls -al /home/bloodshotpico
ls -al /home/bloodshotpico/mounts
ls -al /home/bloodshotpico/mounts/devwork
First creating the dedicated directory on the drive /dev/sdc1
and changing the ownership of that
then mounting it
was what I tried to suggest.
It should work bot ways.
Can I not make it so every user has access to that mount and then the files they create within that mount are the ones that need the permissions for read and write?
the easy, perhaps least confusing, way is:
unmount the drive
mount it to /mnt
make a directory “devwork” on it mkdir /mnt/devwork
give that directory the proper permissions
with chown and chmod
unmount the drive from /mnt
mount that directory to /home/bloodshotpico/mounts
again -
via a modified fstab entry (minus the “devworks” part)
ls -al /home/bloodshotpico/mounts
should then return
/home/bloodshotpico/mounts/devwork
with the proper permissions, the ones that you just set
Okay so currently I’ve mounted the drives to mnt since I’m wanting this for all my drives. (Allowing all users to access them)
However the part I’m confused by is giving them the permissions as I’m not sure what permissions they would need etc.
Along with you saying mount them in mnt and then mount something in /home/bloodshotpico/mounts I’m not sure what would be mounted here sorry?
I just edited my post.
The permissions should (probably) be the same as for your $HOME directory /home/bloodshotpico
so that you can access it just as any location inside your $HOME directory
I have no drive to tinker around with to give you the exact commands.
There are posts here on that topic.
