Grant Write Permission to specific user for Home directory

tinh_x7 · 25. November 2017

Hi guys,

I'm currently using Snipe-IT, an asset manager, and it currently installed at /opt/snipeit .
I recently receiving permission error when I'm upgrading b/c the composer needs to create its directory at home.
I've created a user and group named snipeit.

Code

stat /home/


  File: ‘/home/’
  Size: 4096      	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 801h/2049d	Inode: 262145      Links: 5
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)

Code

ls -la /home/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  4096 Nov 20  2016 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root  4096 Nov 17 21:38 ..

Whenever I upgrade, and run this commands,

Code

cd /opt/snipeit


....
su snipeit -c 'php composer.phar install --no-dev --prefer-source'
su snipeit -c 'php composer.phar dump-autoload'

I receive this error:

Code

Cannot create cache directory /home/snipeit/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/, or directory is not writable. Proceeding without cache Cannot create cache directory /home/snipeit/.composer/cache/files/, or directory is not writable. Proceeding without cache

Home is a root directory.

What's the best way to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

ryecoaaron · 25. November 2017

No one other than root can create anything in your /home/ directory. I'm also guessing snipeit doesn't create the snipeit home directory. I would do the following as root:

mkdir /home/snipeit
chown snipeit:users /home/snipeit

tinh_x7 · 26. November 2017

I was thinking about that too.
Hopefully that should fix it in the future upgrade.

Thanks.

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