Hi!
I set up my Debian 7.1 droplet according to the tutorials, and created a new user with admin rights. I want to use that user to copy files over with WinSCP, but I get “scp /path permission denied” messages, even after giving that user chown and chmod 777 rights to my /var/www folder.
What should still be set up?
Csaba
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Have you considered using SFTP, instead of SCP?<blockquote><h4>SCP vs. SFTP</h4>Given that both SCP and SFTP utilize the SSH protocol in connecting to another computer, the two methods are fairly equal in regard to security. SFTP has a slight edge in regard to efficiency, because an interrupted file-transfer can resume where it left off in the event of a broken connection that is later re-established.</blockquote><i>See</i> <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-filezilla-to-transfer-and-manage-files-securely-on-your-vps”>How To Use Filezilla to Transfer and Manage Files Securely on your VPS</a>.
Ok, my lack of knowledge… I thought that chown is recursive by default, but it’s not. <br>In order to change ownership of a directory and all of its files, you have to use chown -R. <br>This solved my problem. (Still would be nice to include in the initial server setup tutorial, though :) )
drwxrwxrwx 2 customuser root 4096 Dec 3 06:56 . <br>drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Dec 3 06:56 … <br>-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 177 Dec 3 06:56 index.html