Question
A rights problem with a sudo user
I am setting up my first server and I am running into a rights problem.
I did the following:
- made an SSH key
- selected Ubuntu 15.10
- installed VestaCP as the root user
- created a sudo user and made it impossible to login as root
- Logged in with SFTP as sudo user with PPK key
Now when I go in my Filezilla to the directory /home/admin/web I get the message “permission denied” and I cannot see its contents.
My question is what exactly went wrong and - most importantly - how I can repair it.
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Are you able to see other content in
/home/admin/? What’s the output ofstat /home/admin/web? Make sure it is owned by your sudo user and not root or by a group that your sudo user has access to.