proftpd - create a user, and folder

Hi

I installed protftpd on a ubuntu server 11.04

I would like to create 1 user (Heeter) and I would like to have full access 1 folder (/var/www)

Can't seem to figure out how to do this.

Thanks

Heeter

 

Create a system user with /var/www as his home directory, then chown /var/www recursively to that new user. But please be aware that this might have side-effects if you have multiple web sites in /var/www that are owned by different users. In this case it might be better to use SFTP/SCP (e.g. with WinSCP) and connect as root.

 

Hi Falko,

I am still trying to figure out what & how you do this?

All I need is one user (me = Heeter) access to the /var/www/ folder

If you could show me the commands, that would be awesome.

Heeter

 

Check out the useradd and chown commands:

Code:

man useradd
man chown