The procedure is as follows:
- Open the terminal application.
- Login to Ubuntu server using ssh.
- Add a new user named foo to www-data group by running useradd -g www-data foo command.
- Add an existing user bar to Apache’s www-data group on Ubuntu using usermod -a -G www-data bar command.
- Verify new modification on Linux by using the id command.
Let us see all commands in details.
How to see a list of www-data members
To see list of all members of a group named www-data, run the following grep command on /etc/group file:
grep ^www-data /etc/group
Sample outputs:
www-data:x:33:
How do I add an existing user named vivek to group Apache group www-data?
