By danvega
I signed up with VaultPress to do backups of my wordpress blog. I would like to give them access using SFTP but I am not really sure how to add a new account.
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You can add a new user with SFTP access by doing the following where the username you are creating is “newuser”:
useradd newuser
passwd newuser
usermod -m -d /path/to/new/home/dir newuser
The first command “useradd” will create the new user. The “passwd” command will prompt you to create a new password for the user The “usermod” command sets a home directory for this new user.
You may also want to add the user to a group with permissions to the files you want this account to access. If this is your web root you can use:
useradd -g www-data newuser
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