VSCode's "Retry as admin" function doesn't work in Debian 12

[eugrus]

Like KDE apps do, VSCode also has a way to save a file with root privileges without starting the app via sudo.

However once I try to save a file to /var/www that way, it fails and I get an invitation to "Retry as admin" again.

Is it fixable?

[dilberts_left_nut]

That is a poor approach.
If you want your user to have write permissions in /var/www you should set the permissions appropriately, probably as part of a group.
Check the existing permissions.
NOTE: You DO NOT want your web server user (www-data) to have write permissions to the webroot.

[eugrus]

That is a poor approach.
If you want your user to have write permissions in /var/www you should set the permissions appropriately, probably as part of a group.
Check the existing permissions.
NOTE: You DO NOT want your web server user (www-data) to have write permissions to the webroot.

I've tried

sudo adduser eugrus www-data
sudo chown -R root:www-data /var/www

Didn't change things.

[dilberts_left_nut]

What says:

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ls -l /var/www

[eugrus]

What says:

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ls -l /var/www

Thank you!

Had to chmod g+w indeed!