Question
FTP open for write: permission denied
Hi
I’m new to linux. I have followed v.helpful on-line tutorials to setup CentosOS 6.5, and I have successfully installed LAMP server, SSH and vsftp.
I have setup a second user with the same privileges as root and I can access the droplet via FTP (with FileZilla) as that new user and successfully download a file *but * I can’t upload any file - whether a new file or an edited version of an existing file. I’ve been trying a simple upload to “/var/www/html” where the owner=root and the group=root.
The error message is:
Error: /var/www/html/index.php: open for write: permission denied
Error: File transfer failed
I’m sure it is something simple; Any assistance gratefully received.
Ted
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Update: my second user is ‘ted’. I CAN upload into /home/ted.
I’ve edited the sudoers file for “ted ALL =(ALL) ALL”, as well as the other typical file edits.
I “thought” that this would give me all the same rights (including file permissions) as root. Clearly not, but surely I don’t have to chown all the existing folders and files to ted as well?
Still wondering
Ted