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
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.
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"
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.
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
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