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— forked from edheltzel/ADD_SFTP_User.md
steps to create new SFTP user/account
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| #### This is mainly for VMs managed by ServerPilot control panel using Ubuntu 14.04 | |
| #### But in theory will work for VMs in general ie: DigitalOcean or AWS instance | |
| #### 1 Add new user | |
| useradd mudotmy | |
| #### 2 Follow on screen prompts - this will allow SFTP with the password set from the prompts | |
| #### If there are no prompts just move on to Step 3 You will reset the password in the last step | |
| #### 3 Update user's home directory to ServerPilots Apps OR vim /etc/passwd to change the new users path |