By cbrett
I’ve followed the tutorial on setting up a LAMP stack on my VPS and it would seem the new user DOESN’T have the same privileges as root, therefore I’m not able to change and files, folders, create and new files or folders etc… any help much appreciated.
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Did you implement <b>Step Four</b> of <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-12-04”>Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 12.04</a>?
And even if you have implemented step four you still need to run the command with ‘sudo’ in order to gain root privileges. <br>ex. <br>#sudo mv directory /home/user/targetdirectory <br>#sudo shutdown -h now
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