[HacktionLab] Wordpress file permissions and ownership: command line versus dashboard

[Mick - Clearerchannel.org]

On 01/04/14 22:57, Marcus Valentine wrote:
> Say the user has written their own wordpress plugin. It needs to go
> into plugins directory. They can't put it into the plugins directory
> themselves as the files as owned by the web server user and the user
> does not have root access.
I've come across this before and wondered the same question.

Then I thought, if you have a user that you wouldn't want to have root
access you probably wouldn't want to give them access to run plugins on
your server and would want to check them out first.

If fact I've got a similar  situation now - I'd like a group to be able
to log in with a GUI tool and take a back up before before doing their
upgrades. But I'm wondering if they would have read access to all files.
to do that.

The alternative is to give root access via a shell but that's a steep
learning curve.

nice one