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Help! Step-by-step instructions for SFTP account setup needed

Posted on July 25, 2015

I’ve read numerous Digital Ocean tutorials on SFTP setup as well as general internet tutorials on the same but I haven’t found anything that offers step-by-step setup instructions and I’m a noob!

I have root SSH access to our droplet and have multiple domains hosted at /var/www/domain.com/public_html

I’d like to create multiple SFTP accounts that offer access to specific domains and DO NOT offer SSH access.

Can anyone help?

Assume I know nothing because I’m just learning command line server administration. I’m used to cPanel!

Thanks heaps and heaps!



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Thanks heaps and heaps - I’m looking forward to trying this out tomorrow. I’ll report back!

Actually I tried that (username root) and couldn’t get in that way either. It says “login incorrect”

Understood. Could you give me instructions for setting that up?

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