By anon55
So I connected to my server using SFTP with filezilla and I’m trying to edit a root-protected HTML file. I’m getting open for write: permission denied errors as expected since it’s a root protected file. Is there a way to “sudo” with filezilla?
note: I disabled the ability to connect to root with SSH.
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My solution with apache2 at ubuntu 18.04 :
- I add username to www-data group (adduser username www-data)
- I give chmod 775 to www folder (chmod -R 775 /var/www/html)
This question was answered by @anon55:
My current solution is to give the user write permission to that specific www folder using
chown -R username directory. Is this how developers usually edit www folders or is there a better solution?
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