Non-root user cannot write in home directory
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[deleted] · 2023-05-29 15:10

I have created non-root user to run gitea but gitea scripts cannot
modify prescribed home directory with "Permission denied" error. I
should allow writing in this directory but I don't understand how. How
can I change permissions? Thank you all!

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gumnos · 2023-05-29 15:33

What permissions/ownership are returned from

    $ ls -lsFd ~gitea

(assuming your non-root user is named "gitea")

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gumnos · 2023-05-29 15:34

additionally, are the `gitea` scripts running as the the `gitea` user?

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timvandijknl · 2023-05-29 15:44

chmod 0755 ?

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EstablishmentBig7956 · 2023-05-29 16:12

Change ownership to the users name

#chown user:group path

Make sure the group assignment are correct 775 if all else fails

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TheRedPepper · 2023-05-29 17:23

I don’t know it’s a great idea. But I run gitea with its own home
directory.

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[deleted] · 2023-05-29 17:31

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Street_Struggle3937 · 2023-05-29 18:19

I see gitea in the answers. Do you use ZFS. I once had a problem with
gitea not been able to, what looked like it cloulf not write. But it
turned out a  ZFS dataset had been set to no executable.  That way
gitea could not run the scripts that placed the files. I do not
remember the exact dataset. I thought it was in /var/db.

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mirandavanbreukeling · 2023-05-29 21:49

chown -Rfv user:user/usr/home/user if still empty?

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[deleted] · 2023-05-31 07:57

Yes, they are run by gitea user

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grahamperrin · 2023-06-03 00:52

> chown -Rfv user:user/usr/home/user

Missing space.

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mirandavanbreukeling · 2023-06-03 06:28

Forgot a space It‘s: chown -Rvf  user:user /home/user/*

Or use the userdel and than useradd function, it sets your /home
directory to 755.