#add users to the groups usermod -a -G freeswitch www-data usermod -a -G www-data freeswitch #setup owner and group, permissions and sticky chown -R freeswitch:freeswitch /var/lib/freeswitch chmod -R ug+rw /var/lib/freeswitch find /var/lib/freeswitch -type d -exec chmod 2770 {} \; mkdir /usr/share/freeswitch/scripts chown -R freeswitch:freeswitch /usr/share/freeswitch chmod -R ug+rw /usr/share/freeswitch find /usr/share/freeswitch -type d -exec chmod 2770 {} \; chown -R freeswitch:freeswitch /etc/freeswitch chmod -R ug+rw /etc/freeswitch find /etc/freeswitch -type d -exec chmod 2770 {} \; chown -R freeswitch:freeswitch /var/log/freeswitch chmod -R ug+rw /var/log/freeswitch find /var/log/freeswitch -type d -exec chmod 2770 {} \;