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How to setup FTP and Database user for our wordpress site admin

Posted on March 22, 2016

Hi,

I want to know the steps/commands to setup FTP and Database access (should be limited to wordpress install directory only) for our wordpress site admin. I cannot give him root details, that is obvious, so I need details to how to do this.

Please advise.



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This question was answered by @LakshmanS:

I was able to login via ftp, had to change this in the default config -

pam_service_name=ftp

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