I know enough Linux sysadmin to be dangerous but not enough to be reliably safe. :(
I have a new 16.04 VPS and have just installed webmin. I would like to setup a sftp user, william, via webmin who is allowed to write under /home/websitename/htdocs/ via SFTP and not cause problems with apache reading the files, which are all right now owned by www-data:www-data. Basically, they are designers and content folks, and this is a Joomla site. This should coexist with my developers having ssh access.
I don't want william to write elsewhere, and it would probably be good to prevent them viewing elsewhere. I've seen that Joe Cooper discourages using chroot to limit access (https://www.virtualmin.com/comment/706702#comment-706702), which I'm not sure I could do properly for my use case anyway as recipes like https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/03/chroot-sftp-setup/ generally focus on user directories and don't address working with apache readable files.
I think what I should do is:
Questions: