Question
Having setup FTP I need to create a user and give access to a web page folder
- Posted on August 31, 2020
- Ubuntu
Asked by Dan Desjardins
I need to create a user that has access to a web address that I’m managing on DO. I have the web server and ftp installed and running. What I would like to do is create a user whose home page is /var/www/html/severestudios and give them ftp read/write access (only to that folder). I have followed a few tutorials indicating the following should work…
adduser <username> usermod -d /var/www/html/severestudios <username> chown <username>:<username> <username> chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/severestudios usermod -a -G www-data <username>
I try to log in with WinSCP (standard FTP - no encryption) and either get: OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/severestudios/ftp or worse OOPS: priv_sock_get_cmd
It doesn’t make sense that it’s trying to change the directory to /home/severestudios - that is not the home directory I set, nor is it the one that appears in the /etc/passwd file (the right one is in there).
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I was able to do what I needed in an easy enough way by following the article here: [https://www.ducea.com/2006/07/27/allowing-ftp-access-to-files-outside-the-home-directory-chroot/]
Hi @dandesjardins,
It seems like you have set your home directory to
/home/username/. Anyway, there a few services which you can use to help you achieve that.I’ll recommend using vsftpd as it will tremendously help you out. Additionally, DigitalOcean have a pretty good article on how to configure it:
It should help you out pretty well.
Regards, KFSys