Topic: NEED SERVER HALP

Anonymous A started this discussion 15 years ago #10,290

Yo guys,
Just bought a vps server, and am having some issues. For some reason the company whom i bought it from assigns a username (not a true root username) to the account. Every time i try to SFTP the connection and log in, i cannot upload in any directory outside of my user folder. Im trying to get to /var/www/html but am getting an error that im not root.

I can su into root via putty, but this ghetto server isnt fucking working rite, and i cannot edit shit. What is the best way to simply transfer fucking files? (either over sftp or ssh)

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #182,916

are you sure you didn't buy a shell

protip !!pMmAiEwOm joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 5 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #182,918

sudo bash
chmod
chown

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #182,941

su root
passwd

To set root password

Or log in as wwwdata or whatever

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 51 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #182,975

@previous (D)

> su root
> passwd
>
> To set root password
>
> Or log in as wwwdata or whatever

I changed the root pass yesterday (through su root), and still cannot log into "root"

Fuck this server sux. Im trying other shit ppl posted now

Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 15 years ago, 6 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #182,986

@182,918 (protip !!pMmAiEwOm)

> sudo bash
> chmod
> chown

worked thx

Anonymous C replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #182,990

@182,975 (A)
/etc/ssh/sshd_config will disable root login. And thatâ€™s a good thing.

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