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I use sftp to backup my laptop (Ubuntu 18.10) onto a server (Ubuntu 18.04) on my local network. Suddenly something has gone wrong with the permissions on the server and I started getting access denied warnings. My username on the server also lost membership of the sudoers group. I added the user back into the sudoers group but cannot get the access to the backup folder without running sudo chmod -R 777. Obviously, for security reasons, I need to have at least 775 permissions on this file but I don't know what user to add to what group to achieve this.

EDIT I tried adding the backup folder owner to the ssh group but that didn't work.

Information requested:

~$ ls -l /home/biergarten 
   total 1172 
   drwxrwxr-x 2 biergarten ssh 1167360 Feb 6 00:27 BackupLaptopSSD
   drwxrwxr-x 2 biergarten ssh 20480 Apr 23 09:20 BackupTuxedo
   -rwxrwxr-x 1 biergarten ssh 58 Oct 20 2016 delPhotos.sh
   -rwxrwxr-x 1 biergarten ssh 131 Dec 14 2016 FTP_TEST123.txt


~$ groups biergarten ssh
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  • post the outputs of ls -l /path/to/your/backups and groups - as the user on the server – rm-vanda Apr 23 '19 at 21:00
  • ~$ ls -l /home/biergarten total 1172 drwxrwxr-x 2 biergarten ssh 1167360 Feb 6 00:27 BackupLaptopSSD drwxrwxr-x 2 biergarten ssh 20480 Apr 23 09:20 BackupTuxedo -rwxrwxr-x 1 biergarten ssh 58 Oct 20 2016 delPhotos.sh -rwxrwxr-x 1 biergarten ssh 131 Dec 14 2016 FTP_TEST123.txt – SteveInBavaria Apr 23 '19 at 21:05
  • ~$ groups biergarten ssh – SteveInBavaria Apr 23 '19 at 21:07
  • I've added the details you provided to your question. Please check if I've done so correctly. – DK Bose Apr 24 '19 at 01:53
  • Correct, thanks. I should have done that but, in my defence, it was getting late and I'd been working on this problem for a few hours. :-( – SteveInBavaria Apr 24 '19 at 05:59
  • It seems that this is a permissions bug with Deja Dup https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/duplicity/+bug/1770929 I can only save a backup now if the server directory has 777 permissions – SteveInBavaria Apr 24 '19 at 20:51

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You probably just need to chown the directory back to your user & the appropriate group. 

sudo chown -R your-user:appropriate-group /path/to/backups

Then you need to investigate how your user got dropped from the sudo group!

rm-vanda
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  • Thanks, I tried that but still cannot backup with Deja-Dup and 'sftp://192.168.1.9/home/backup/' And a funny thing happened, after adding the user to the ssh group and re-booting, the user was removed from the sudoers group. I am 100% sure the user was in sudoers before the chown command because I ran it fron the users account. – SteveInBavaria Apr 23 '19 at 20:51
  • I had something similar happen once upon a time... perhaps worth double checking your syntax: usermod -G groupname -a username – rm-vanda Apr 23 '19 at 20:58