Just starting out playing with "attempting" to set up a site on a server Ubuntu 12.04.
Followed the Getting Started guide, but also added in disabling root login,

PermitRootLogin no


added (think I did) a user like this:
adduser dave
usermod -a -G www-data dave

$vi /etc/sudoers
dave ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

sudo service ssh restart

and I can SSH login as dave, tried root and sure enough will not allow me so everything looks good.

I SFTP thru FileZilla but i have zero permissions to create folders except in home/dave.

What Am I missing? If I grant dave all the same access as the root user why does he have none in FTP?
I can login as dave / password but cant really do anything.

My background is web development.
Never a server or command line so I am just following the guides hoping its right so the commands all or foreign to me.
Its all cryptic to a visual person so bare with me. And for now it will just be me with access.

Thanks for any all help. Explain as if I was a 4 year old if possible

Dave

Adding 'dave' to sudoers allows him to run executables as if he were 'root'. It does not alter his ability to access the file system -- the permissions still apply, so he needs to be granted write access to the directories where he is going to upload / create folders.

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/ Peter

Thanks for the time Peter.

After a bit of Google and reading I got it all sorted out.
I was under the wrong impression but on track now (I hope).

Dave