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My question is necessarily asking for the process of setting up openssh-server, however I want to create an account on my server that has access to specific domain under /var/www/exampledomain.com. Example domain's ownership is www-data:wp-user (wp-user being the user that gives the wordpress installation the ability to do sFTP updates/operations).

So to put it concisely, I want to create a user that is able to have the same rights as wp-user. I essentially want to use sftp-user to modify files that belong to www-data:wp-user.

I've tried many guides like:

The process seems stupid simple however I can't seem to achieve my goal. Can this be done at all? Is there a better ownership scheme?

Either way, thanks in advance.

Protonova
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So you can try to create a group like its said in the links given by you, then add in this group all the users that can modify the files which belong to wp-user. finally all the files creates by wp-user need to let the write permission to this group.

Or create a directory where only users who are authorised to modify the files of wp-user can acces to this directory

so the steps are:

sudo addgroup ftpaccess //create group ftpacess
sudo adduser paul ftpacess // add user paul to the group ftpacess

Or

sudo adduser paul -ingroup ftpaccess --shell /usr/sbin/nologin //command in the first link

then wp-user will create a file you will change the group owner

sudo chgrp ftpacces file

Note: you can put your wp-user in the groop ftpaccess then all the users in this group can modify it. (Dont know if its good for security)

Eldin SMAKIC
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