
You have mentioned (and possibly confused) a few different things - so your objective isn't quite clear, unfortunately. PS: I've got most of the pertinent AWS command line tools installed and functional. I'm using the vsftpd set-up recommended hereĪny ideas on what I need to change in order to 1) login via Filezilla as "myusername" rather than "ec2-user" or "root"? I cannot drag/drop from local machine to EC2 instance via FTP client (Filezilla), so apparently, while I can login as ec2-user, I do not have write permissions. ssh/authorized_keys file for each of the above user directories. I've tweaked /etc/httpd/conf/nf, /etc/vsftpd/nf as well as changed AWS security group settings and ports/protocols in accord with those tweaks, and created.

htaccess file in /home/admin, /home/ec2-user, and /home/myusername directories.

Can login only as "ec2-user", or "root" with no password, but not with myusername and/or password.

I am a total Apache noob, and after much hair-pulling and gnashing of teeth finally got SFTP access to new EC2 instance in passive mode.
