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Content folder permissions

See original GitHub issue

Summary

The files in the content folder of your blog installation have the following permissions:

in production
644 for files
owned by the Ghost user

The problem with these restrictions is that if i am logged in with my custom ubuntu user (which is the default case), i am not allowed to edit these files, because they are owned by the ghost user with 644 permissions. I have to change the permissions to e.g. 646 or i have to use sudo to edit the files.

This feels like we got the permissions wrong. The content folder is for user data. The challenge is to support both:

that the ghost user needs to be able to write files in the content folder
that the ubuntu user is able to edit the files

Possible solution

Use a ghost group and change the permissions to 664.

This needs further research.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:10 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

kirrg001commented, Aug 22, 2018

The main Q is, why Ghost has to run under ghost user?

It’s because of privilege restriction and separation. The ghost user is a non-sudo user.

1reaction

acburdinecommented, Jul 13, 2018

Yeah, a similar approach might actually be the best approach for the CLI. Maybe some sort of command ghost content edit <file> or something that would edit the file in your favorite editor, then save the file back as the ghost user, thus preventing any issues with file permissions.

It’s a bit of a workaround to the actual problem, but it seems like a decently clean solution

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