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How to create a FTP user with specific /dir/ access only on a Centos / linux installation

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

So I’m on a VPS – CentOS Linux installation. I have vsFTPd on the server.
I currently have SFTP access to the server via my root user, but am now trying to create a new user with FTP access to a specific directory only on the server, I’ve done the following:

VSFTPD, 553 Could not create file. – permissions?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

I’ve set up vsftpd on Amazon EC2 with the Amazon Linux AMI. I created a user and can now successfully connect via ftp. However, if I try to upload something I get the error message