By simondavies
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?
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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>
sudo usermod -a -G www-data your-user
(you have to add “your-user” to “www-data” :) )
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