By mlunalover
Hey DigitalOcean,
Could you please provide instructions for setting up FTP access to Ubuntu 14.04. I have followed the guide you have for 12.04 but it does not give root access. I need to be able to have full read write access to all data on my ubuntu server. Please help!
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Fortunately, it is not possible to log in as root over FTP. :) FTP is inherently insecure, it is best to use SFTP instead which is secure and allows root access: How To Use Filezilla to Transfer and Manage Files Securely on your VPS.
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