Permission settings for everyday sftp user

boxelder

I'd like to add a separate user from root to the system for sftp and administration purposes. The following would be for Ubuntu 14.04. Any pitfalls to the following method of adding the user 'dev' to the www-data group? I want to make sure that anything uploaded by that user through sftp can be read/executed by php & apache. Thanks.

adduser dev # Add user to sudo group gpasswd -a dev sudo ## Copy ssh key to new user's directory ## On LOCAL COMPUTER, run the following command & copy result to clipboard cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ## While logged in as root user, issue following cmd to change to dev user su - dev ## Create the .ssh directory and the keys file mkdir .ssh chmod 700 .ssh vi .ssh/authorized_keys ## paste in the ssh key you copied earlier. Now change permissions on the file chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys ## exit back to root exit # Add devuser to www-data, to allow for sftp file uploads usermod -a -G www-data dev # Set user's home directory - where they land when they SFTP in. usermod -d /var/www/html dev

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@boxelder said:
I'd like to add a separate user from root to the system for sftp and administration purposes. The following would be for Ubuntu 14.04. Any pitfalls to the following method of adding the user 'dev' to the www-data group? I want to make sure that anything uploaded by that user through sftp can be read/executed by php & apache. Thanks.

adduser dev # Add user to sudo group gpasswd -a dev sudo ## Copy ssh key to new user's directory ## On LOCAL COMPUTER, run the following command & copy result to clipboard cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ## While logged in as root user, issue following cmd to change to dev user su - dev ## Create the .ssh directory and the keys file mkdir .ssh chmod 700 .ssh vi .ssh/authorized_keys ## paste in the ssh key you copied earlier. Now change permissions on the file chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys ## exit back to root exit # Add devuser to www-data, to allow for sftp file uploads usermod -a -G www-data dev # Set user's home directory - where they land when they SFTP in. usermod -d /var/www/html dev

You can find the details for centos as well for ubuntu.
http://techinfozone.net/?s=sftp