https://wiki.apoyar.eu/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Creating_an_SFTP_user_for_www_server 2026-07-21T07:36:33Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.41.0 https://wiki.apoyar.eu/index.php?title=Creating_an_SFTP_user_for_www_server&diff=203&oldid=prev 2021-06-30T12:00:22Z

<p>Created page with &quot;Creating SFTP Access on Server ----------------------------------- Login to server, on which need to create SFTP access Go to below path and create folder, where need to...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Creating SFTP Access on Server<br /> -----------------------------------<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Login to server, on which need to create SFTP access<br /> <br /> <br /> Go to below path and create folder, where need to upload data<br /> <br /> <br /> • cd /var/www<br /> <br /> • mkdir uploads<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Copy neal and nagios key’s from Nagios server(nagios.apoyar)<br /> <br /> • scp neal nagios username@servername /home/neal/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> move both keys to sshkeys folder<br /> <br /> • mv neal nagios /usr/share/sshkeys<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> change nagios owner<br /> <br /> • chown nagios:nagios nagios<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> change permission for neal and nagios<br /> <br /> • chmod 600 *<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Create simlink and restart sshd<br /> <br /> <br /> • ln -s /usr/share/sshkeys/nagios /home/nagios/.ssh/authorizedkeys<br /> <br /> <br /> • ln -s /usr/share/sshkeys/neal /home/neal/.ssh/authorizedkeys<br /> <br /> <br /> • systemctl restart sshd<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Create user apoyarsftp<br /> <br /> <br /> • useradd -m -d /var/www/uploads/ -G www-data /usr/sbin/nologin apoyarsftp<br /> <br /> <br /> Add user to www-data group<br /> <br /> <br /> • usrmod -a -G apoyarsftp www-data<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Go to home folder<br /> <br /> • cd /home/<br /> <br /> • vi /etc/ssh/sshd.config<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Go to last &amp; add below lines there<br /> <br /> <br /> Match User sftpuser<br /> <br /> ChrootDirectory folderpath<br /> <br /> X11Forwarding no<br /> <br /> AllowTcpForwarding no<br /> <br /> ForceCommand Internal-sftp<br /> <br /> edit username and folderpath<br /> <br /> sftpuser – apoyarsftp<br /> <br /> folderpath - /var/www/uploads/<br /> <br /> save file :wq!<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> • systemctl restart sshd<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Set password for apoyarsftp user<br /> <br /> <br /> • Passwd apoyarsftp<br /> <br /> Qwerty1!<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Change owner and permission for uploads folder<br /> <br /> <br /> • Cd /var/www<br /> <br /> • chown -R apoyarsftp apoyarsftp:apoyarsftp uploads/<br /> <br /> • chown root:root uploads/<br /> <br /> • chmod 755 uploads/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Create .ssh folder under uploads and change owner and permission for .ssh folder<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> • cd uploads/<br /> <br /> • mkdir .ssh<br /> <br /> • chmod -R 700 .ssh/<br /> <br /> • chown –R apoyarsftp:apoyarsftp .ssh/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Go to below path and generate key<br /> <br /> <br /> • cd /usr/share/sshkeys<br /> <br /> • ssh-keygen<br /> <br /> Enter file name - ./apoyarsftp<br /> <br /> <br /> • mv apoyarsftp /home/neal<br /> <br /> • mv apoyarsftp.pub apoyarsftp<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Change owner and permission for apoyarsftp<br /> <br /> <br /> • chown apoyarsftp:apoyarsftp apoysrsftp<br /> <br /> • chmod 600 apoyarsftp<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Create simlink<br /> <br /> • ln –s /usr/share/sshkeys/apoyarsftp /var/www/uploads/.ssh/authorizedkeys<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Create subfolder under uploads folder and change owner for that folder<br /> <br /> <br /> • cd /var/www/uploads<br /> <br /> • mkdir private<br /> <br /> • chown –R apoyarsftp:apoyarsftp private<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Go to mercury.apoyar server and create new host under bleckmann<br /> <br /> <br /> • Name - sftp<br /> <br /> • IP address - Server IP adreess<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Click Add host<br /> <br /> <br /> Go to bleckmann server and add DNS record to hostfile<br /> <br /> • cd /home/neal<br /> <br /> • vi /etc/hosts<br /> <br /> And add below entry<br /> <br /> Server IP address sftp.bleckmann.apoyar<br /> <br /> Save the file (:wq1!)<br /> <br /> Now connect server try uploading files.</div>

Admin