FTP Permissions to upload files

Posted May 11, 2014

i have created a Ubuntu LEMP droplet etc and installed sever apps via terminal etc. But now i want o upload some files via ftp, but i am getting the permissions issue.

I have set up a new user and disabled root for security etc but when i ssh into my www shows the user/group as root:www-data.

in order to enable me to ftp into this wold i simply need to change the user:group to:

myuser:www-data via chown -R myuser:www-data or is there a better way to enable me to ftp into my droplet?

simondavies

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fabreg • August 13, 2014

sudo usermod -a -G www-data your-user

(you have to add “your-user” to “www-data” :) )

Andrew SB • May 12, 2014

You should be able to just add your user to the the www-data group: <br> <br><pre> <br>sudo usermod -a -G www-data your-user <br></pre>