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Find files with the wrong owner in a webspace

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find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs ! -user webuser -ls

Shows every file and folder whose owner is not the given user. In a Plesk webspace, almost everything should belong to the subscription user. Matches owned by root typically appear when files were extracted or copied as root, or when WP-CLI was run with --allow-root.

Note: On Plesk, the document root itself usually belongs to the group psaserv, but it only shows up here if its owner differs.

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