File owner / group / permissions

[smieruch]

Hi,
first of all, I would like to say thank you for this great package. I have successfully included it into a Laravel App. However, I wanted to ask if you can give me a hint to change the owner, the group and the file permissions for created and uploaded files and folders.
Thanks and kind regards,
Sebastian

[n1crack]

1. Change Ownership:
   You can use the chown function to change the owner of a file. For example:

chown(storage_path('app/file.txt'), 'newOwner');

2. Change Group:
   Similarly, you can use the chgrp function to change the group of a file:

chgrp(storage_path('app/file.txt'), 'newGroup');

3. Change Permissions:
   To change the file permissions, you can use the chmod function:

chmod(storage_path('app/file.txt'), 0644);

Here, 0644 is an example of file permissions. You can customize it based on your requirements.

4. Change Permissions Recursively for Folders:
   If you need to change permissions recursively for folders, you can use the recursive option in Laravel’s File facade:

File::chmodDirectory(storage_path('app/folder'), 0755, true);

The third parameter true indicates that the operation should be performed recursively.

Remember to replace 'newOwner', 'newGroup', 'file.txt', and 'folder' with the actual values and file/folder names you’re working with.

[smieruch]

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. However, in my app I have to access the files in the workspace with a certain user e.g. with uid=1000. By default the workspace is created with "drwx------ 3 www-data www-data". Files are created with "-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data". Now I would need to place a hook into the VueFinder.php on every file / folder create / change and change the permissions or owner or group. I think this is not the best way to do it.

So, I'm wondering if there is rather a global setting for the permissions. From Laravel I could do this:

'local' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => storage_path('app'),
'permissions' => [
'file' => [
'public' => 0644,
'private' => 0600,
],
'dir' => [
'public' => 0755,
'private' => 0700,
],
],
],

Maybe this is the solution, I have to try. I could change the permissions to 0777, then my user with uid=1000 has full access. But still owner:group is www-data:www-data.

Ok I have to try.

Cheers.

[smieruch]

Ok, I tried that, but it only has an effect on Laravel's Storage, e.g. creating a file
Storage::disk('local')->put($private_workspace . '/example.txt', 'Contents');
It seems to have no effect on VueFinder.
Do you have an idea how I could change permissions globally for VueFinder creating files etc. to e.g. 0777 ?
Thanks.

[smieruch]

Hi,
I found a solution for my usecase. First I change the umask to umask(0000) according to https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.umask.php
Then I have added a few lines to the PHP following https://flysystem.thephpleague.com/docs/usage/unix-visibility/

//add PortableVisibilityConverter                                                                                                                                    
use League\Flysystem\UnixVisibility\PortableVisibilityConverter;

//set umask                                                                                                                                                          
umask(0000);

// Set VueFinder class                                                                                                                                               
$vuefinder = new VueFinder([
    'local' => new LocalFilesystemAdapter(
        dirname(__DIR__).'/storage',
	PortableVisibilityConverter::fromArray([
            'file' => [
            'public' => 0777,   //no effect                                                                                                                          
            'private' => 0777,  //no effect                                                                                                                          
            ],
            'dir' => [
            'public' => 0777,
            'private' => 0777,    //this is used                                                                                                                     
            ],
	]),
    ),
]);

The crucial point is to set the umask. I don't understand it fully, the PortableVisibilityConverter has no effect on files, but on private folders. Anyway for files the new umask is used, which is 666 (-rw-rw-rw-). For folders it is 777 (drwxrwxrwx). Still owner and group is www-data. This works now for me, I can access the files and folders with another user.