SFTP access for wordpress uploads

November 19, 2014 2.2k views
scramer
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Trying to upload theme and media files with filezilla through SFTP. I can't login with www-data. It doesn't accept the password. When I try to login with the www-data username in the console, it closes the connection immediately.

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  • sierracircle November 19, 2014

    You probably should use your regular user, and just add that user to www-data group.

    From a command-line:

    sudo usermod -a -G www-data $USER

    then check it worked by running:

    id $USER

    you should see a list of all groups that user belongs to, www-data should be listed

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etel June 7, 2016

This question was answered by @sierracircle:

You probably should use your regular user, and just add that user to www-data group.

From a command-line:

sudo usermod -a -G www-data $USER

then check it worked by running:

id $USER

you should see a list of all groups that user belongs to, www-data should be listed

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