Script to fix users home permissions?

[akust0m]

Hello,

I don't have a permissions issue currently, but I was just wondering whether there is a script provided by cPanel that fixes up a users home directory in case it gets messed up for some reason?

As I understand, the primary domain and add-on domains wont work if the group isn't set to "nobody" (using Litespeed). And also things like "etc" in a users home directory needs to have the group set to "mail".

Is there a script that goes through and fixes up all owner/group permissions of all the various files and folders in a users home directory?

Thanks!

 

[RicardoFC]

Hi,

You can use this commands:

cd /home/cpaneluser
ls -all | grep public_html
chown -R cpaneluser.cpaneluser public_html

 

[cPAusaf]

Hello,

The main issue is knowing which PHP handler is being used and adjusting the permissions and ownership accordingly. cPanel does not provide any scripts that automatically fixes this unfortunately. There are a few places online which have permission/ownership scripts that usually work good when using the suPHP handler. If using DSO or CGI, that is where issues may occur if using one of the scripts incorrectly.

 

[akust0m]

Hi,

You can use this commands:

cd /home/cpaneluser
ls -all | grep public_html
chown -R cpaneluser.cpaneluser public_html

Unfortunately this wouldn't work for all situations I'm afraid, especially if you are using lsapi with Litespeed as public_html and addon document roots need to have 'nobody' as the group.

I was more looking at an script to fix everything within a users home directory, not just public_html.

Hello,

The main issue is knowing which PHP handler is being used and adjusting the permissions and ownership accordingly. cPanel does not provide any scripts that automatically fixes this unfortunately. There are a few places online which have permission/ownership scripts that usually work good when using the suPHP handler. If using DSO or CGI, that is where issues may occur if using one of the scripts incorrectly.

No worries at all. It would be amazing if cPanel developed a script that would fix permissions with auto handler recognition

I'll look around, but I might end up trying to write my own bash script

 

[Muhammed Fasal]

This is a simple bash script I wrote to fix the permissions and ownership of files within a cpanel account. To use, simply copy the script into your server, chmod 755, and pass the usernames as arguments:

./fixperms user1 user2

You can see the script here , let me know if it helps.