Hey people,
I just finish a new fresh install of the VM appliance (2018-05-06-2342). Btw amazing job by the Dev !
I try to get access to the folder : /var/www/nextcloud/core to edit, delete few files but I got this:
Thankās
These folders are usually owned by the web server user, which is www-data. So you need to become root (sudo -i) to enter these folders.
Run the following command to see the ownership and file permissions:
ls -al /var/www
Thank you @Schmu ,
But unfortunatly this is not working 
When I enter sudo -i Iām asked to enter the password of the ncadmin account, easy I just enter after the boot of the VM.
But itās not working ->
I even try the default one nextcloud but not working also 
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Can you in general run any commands as root using sudo? If not, you may have changed your machines admin password at some point.
I just try :
I was invited to enter the password of ncadmin and it workedā¦
Still I cannot enter the /var/www/nextcloud
What worked for me was using the nautilus explorer, meaning running āsudo nautilus /var/www/nextcloudā, which opened the directory in the explorer with root rights.
Still having issues?
I am having the same issue, permission denied when accessed as ncadmin, how to I become www-data user to access the nextcloud directory
is it like sudo su -u www-data or somethingā¦
Hi, you need to type sudo -i to become root in Ubuntu.
thats what I thought but I think in the nextcloud VM āsudo -iā is configured as shortcut to run the first time set up script. how do I get past that. everytime I issue āsudo -iā it starts the start up next cloud set up script.
Then you have failed to run the first setup and exited it before it was done.
The last thing that happens is that the startup script is removed, and if you donāt let the first setup script finish properly it will run every time you become root.