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Another permission question (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi,

I'm trying my best to setup Nextcloud on my mediaserver, but I cannot work out the permissions to my data folder.

My setup is as follows: proxmox server openmediavault VM with 8tb disk and nfs shares debian mediaserver with docker compose (including nextcloud docker)

the nfs share is set to 775. I linked it in my debian server through /etc/fstab. I can write to the folder without a problem.

In my docker compose file i linked /mnt/photos:/photos to the nextcloud container. When i login to my container i cannot write files to the folder.

When i change the share to 777, i can write files, but nextcloud setup stops and says my permissions are wide open, so it won't continue the setup.

I turn it back to other:read/execute and the container cannot write to the folder anymore.

What am i doing wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nextcloud uses the www-data user internally. Id is 33. You should be able to "chown 33 dirname" on the nfs server. That may work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I want to try that, but i've got to add: i want to access this folder from my desktop too. i added it the same way in /etc/fstab and it worked instantly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's what group permissions are for. You can add yourself to the www-data group and chown www-data:www-data path. Then you and the container should be able to operate on the contents.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do not forget to log out and log back in after you add yourself to a new group. Your desktop environment is a program, and it won’t know about the update until you spawn a new graphical shell with the updated permissions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Or just start a new login shell.