Default permissions of cpanel3-skel/public_html

Uhm, you don't want public_html to be 777, ever. That's a very bad thing to do.

750 is what the directory should be.

 

chmod 755 cpanel3-skel/public_html

chown yourprimaryuser.primarygroup cpanel3-skel/public_html
it is not as nobody in my case ......

 

This is how my /root/cpanel3-skel/ folder looks:

Code:

drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4096 Jan 28 22:17 ./
drwxr-x---  14 root root 4096 Jun 20 00:48 ../
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Jan 28 22:17 public_ftp/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Jan 28 22:17 public_html/

As you can see, the public_html folder is owned by user root, group root, and is 755 privileges.

This is what I believe to be the default setup.

When an account is created, for example, 'johndoe', the directory /home/johndoe should be created, owned by user johndoe, and group johndoe.

The public_html folder should be auto-created for this person with 755 privileges and should be owned by their username and group.

At this point, that user should be able to log in and read/write to their own public_html directory.

 

Ah... that was a very very important detail you left out, thank you. Of course they can't write to the directory, it isn't writeable! Its only readable and executable. If you had said you were trying to write to the directory via PHP scripts, this could have been solved a lot quicker. I would not make that part of your account creation script though. That is a VERY special case when you need PHP scripts able to write to a directory. It should not ever be the de facto.