This is not a change in behavior from previous versions, as previous Ubuntu versions did not set permissions as www-data:www-data for /var/www/*
It was confirmed by Marc Deslauriers (https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur) today that in 14.04 and 15.10, Apache creates /var/www/* with root:root. It was also confirmed by Marc that in 15.10, nginx creates /var/www/* as root:root as well. (In 14.04, NGINX used a different docroot, and that functionality was changed to be /var/www/* in later versions). I have also confirmed this behavior. This is not a bug nor a change in how things operate. Given that these folders are created automatically by the package manager, it makes sense these are created as root:root. As well, the folders are *not* "root only accessible" - the permissions are 755 on those folders in both 14.04 and 15.10. As is, this is not a bug, so I am marking this as "Invalid". (You are free to execute chmod commands and chown commands to modify this on your own system) ** Changed in: nginx (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1573928 Title: nginx on xenial sets ownership for web-folder to root:root To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nginx/+bug/1573928/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
