How to give user read/write access to folders?

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Published on 2012-09-27T21:12:03Z Indexed on 2012/09/27 21:40 UTC
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I'm running a certain script that is using a non-root user to do the following...

mkdir: cannot create directory `/srv/www/example.com/releases'
*** [err :: 12.23.45.789] : Permission denied

How would I allow user xyz to have permanent permissions to do so and still keep this web server secure? Also is it possible to make it recursive for all subfolders?

I know its probably chmod something but I'm not that linux savy, thanks.

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