Folder created in terminal does not give access to control panel user

Question

I have made a script which creates a folder (website) in the public path of a website that belongs to a website control panel (CyberPanel):

mkdir /home/example.com/website/

But this command does not give enough permissions to the panel user to create or edit files inside it, the permissions are:

ls -la /home/example.com/website/

total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root      root    4096 Dec 14 11:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 softs4939 nogroup 4096 Dec 14 11:49 ..

when I create a folder in the panel, I get the permissions:

ls -la /home/example.com/website/

total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 softs4939 softs4939 4096 Dec 14 11:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 softs4939 nogroup   4096 Dec 14 11:49 ..

which lets the panel user to edit anything in it.

How do I make the folder and all its file inside it (made in terminal) to be editable by panel user?

Have you installed cPanel to your server? – Paul Dec 14 '21 at 12:52 — Paul, Dec 14 '21 at 12:52
I am using CyberPanel with OpenLightSpeed – Computer User Dec 14 '21 at 12:54 — Computer User, Dec 14 '21 at 12:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '21 at 13:13

Three options:

Run the command as the target user, not as root.

sudo -u softs4939 mkdir /home/example.com/website/

run chown afterwards

mkdir /home/example.com/website/
chown softs4939:softs4939 /home/example.com/website/

use install

install -o softs4939 -g softs4939 -d /home/example.com/website/

Personally, I prefer option 3 in such scripts.

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