How to login as nginx user?

Question

linux

I have php and nginx running as an nginx user, I usually work as root, but the scripts that I upload under root often don’t work, because I uploaded them and they have the root owner, but I need nginx, I have to manually change the owner of the files, you can Is it possible to somehow log in under the nginx user and upload from under it?

Answer 1

To do this, you need to set the user to some normal shell in /etc/passwd. Then, in fact, you can go under it through su nginxor simply execute the desired command using su -c.

Answer 2

I have php and nginx running as nginx user, I usually run as root

Scripts must be run as a normal user. Accordingly, the files must belong to him.

• Loginsu username
  
• Returnexit
  
• Change owner recursivelychown -R username: /var/www/username