By nostrus
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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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
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 :) )
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