How To Create An FTP User That Has Permission To EVERYTHING

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Published on 2012-11-18T21:59:03Z Indexed on 2012/11/18 23:06 UTC
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I've spent the last two hours trying to create an FTP user so I can transfer some files over to my Wordpress blog folder.

/var/www/sergiotapia.me

I'm using vsftpd and Ubuntu 12.04 for my FTP server and I've read tons of documentation, none of which seem to work. I still cannot log in with the FTP user, let alone test if I even have the read/write file permissions.

Can a Linux guru here, help me out with a small step by step? I'm comfortable with the terminal and nano, so that's not an issue - I'll SSH into my box. Just tell me what to do and what commands to run.

Specifically, this user needs to have read and write access to the /var/ folder and anything within it.

I want to have 1 user that can do whatever the heck he wants on my Ubuntu 12.04 VPS machine.

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