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Im new to linux. I have a root account and a regular account. The droplet is currently in production so i dont want to take the server unintentionally. How do I grant my new non-sudo user to be able to upload files via SFTP to folder structure under /var/website_files

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Elizine January 31, 2018

To modify the permissions for a specific directory so that you can write to it, set read/write permissions with the command below

sudo chmod 766 -R /var/www/html

This will assign full permissions 7 for the owner, read/write 6 for the group, and read/write for everyone 6, recursively.

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cleellacer January 31, 2018

thanks for the response. i tried that and wasnt able to view files/folders in the directory. i ran chmod 755 -R /var/directory to get it back the way it was.

error was “Server returned empty listing for directory”
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- blepppp January 31, 2018
  
  That means that the user does not have read/write perms for the directory. Are you sure you ran it as sudo? You could also try running directly as the root user.
  
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  cleellacer January 31, 2018
  
  I ran the command as root. but still get the error. Looking at the directory in winscp as root, i see “rwxrw-rw-”. I ran chmod 755 to put things back and see this permission “rwxr-xr-x” on the directory that i want to start in
  
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  cleellacer January 31, 2018
  
  I found this URL https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/permissions-on-var-www-html-for-uploading-web-site-files-via-sftp
  
  And am trying this
  groupadd -g 130 upload1
  mkdir /var/directory/new
  chown user1:upload1 /var/directory/new
  chmod -R 775 /var/directory
  usermod -a -G upload1 user1
  
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cleellacer January 31, 2018

thanks for the response. i tried that and wasnt able to view files/folders in the directory. i ran chmod 755 -R /var/directory to get it back the way it was.

error was “Server returned empty listing for directory”
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- blepppp January 31, 2018
  
  That means that the user does not have read/write perms for the directory. Are you sure you ran it as sudo? You could also try running directly as the root user.
  
  Reply Report
  
  cleellacer January 31, 2018
  
  I ran the command as root. but still get the error. Looking at the directory in winscp as root, i see “rwxrw-rw-”. I ran chmod 755 to put things back and see this permission “rwxr-xr-x” on the directory that i want to start in
  
  Reply Report
  
  cleellacer January 31, 2018
  
  I found this URL https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/permissions-on-var-www-html-for-uploading-web-site-files-via-sftp
  
  And am trying this
  groupadd -g 130 upload1
  mkdir /var/directory/new
  chown user1:upload1 /var/directory/new
  chmod -R 775 /var/directory
  usermod -a -G upload1 user1
  
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