Linux – Setting up FTP server on ubuntu so user XXXX has only acess to /var/www/

Actually I resolved this problem. Spent some hours resolving problem. The solution was simple: change password of a user with

passwd someuser

The -p parameter of useradd doesn't work as I can see, although it says that it sets encrypted password of a new account.

To best share with multiple users who should be able to write in /var/www, it should be assigned a common group. For example the default group for web content on Ubuntu and Debian is www-data. Make sure all the users who need write access to /var/www are in this group.

sudo usermod -a -G www-data <some_user>

Then set the correct permissions on /var/www.

sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www
sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www

Additionally, you should make the directory and all directories below it "set GID", so that all new files and directories created under /var/www are owned by the www-data group.

sudo find /var/www -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;    

Find all files in /var/www and add read and write permission for owner and group:

sudo find /var/www -type f -exec chmod ug+rw {} \;