You could use ACL. To set up ACL for Ubuntu 10.10, first mount the file systems with the acl option in /etc/fstab.
sudo vim /etc/fstab
UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx / ext4 defaults,acl 0 1
sudo mount -o remount,acl /
Then make a group to which a user may belong for this purpose.
sudo groupadd developers
sudo usermod -a -G developers $username
The user needs to log out and in again to become a member of the developers group.
Of course, do not do this if you have content in the /var/www directory that you want,
but just to illustrate setting it up to start:
sudo rm -rf /var/www
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/public
sudo chown -R root.developers /var/www/public
sudo chmod 0775 /var/www/public
sudo chmod g+s /var/www/public
sudo setfacl -d -m u::rwx,g::rwx,o::r-x /var/www/public
Then replace references to "/var/www" with "/var/www/public" in a config file and reload.
sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
If we wanted to restrict delete and rename from all but the user who created the file:
sudo chmod +t /var/www/public
This way, if we want to create directories for frameworks that exist outside the
Apache document root or maybe create server-writable directories, it's still easy.
Apache-writable logs directory:
sudo mkdir /var/www/logs
sudo chgrp www-data /var/www/logs
sudo chmod 0770 /var/www/logs
Apache-readable library directory:
sudo mkdir /var/www/lib
sudo chgrp www-data /var/www/lib
sudo chmod 0750 /var/www/lib
I am working on a related issue, but in your case, you could just add yourself to the web group
sudo adduser $USER www-data
replace USER$ with your username of course.
www-data is the group used for apache web access.
Best Answer
This has been answered before. What you need to do is add the user to the default group where that port is located, e. g.:
Group is
dialout. Add user to that group:Reboot to test.