You are on the right track. If you are moving filex from /home/admin to /var/data/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ you will need to do that as root using sudo. So

sudo mv /home/admin/filex /var/data/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/

Doing this will perform the move as the root user, who has permission to write in that directory.

We hope to accommodate this type of stuff a little more gracefully in the future and have several options we are considering at the moment. Everyone has to keep in mind, though, the more they do manually via SSH on a JumpBox you may break something. So tread carefully. This particular case should be OK though.

Austin

heya -

I think I'm asking a question that I already know the answer to, but what the heck...

I've enabled ssh by registering, and I can access the virtual machine no problem. I thought I'd be tricky and sftp from the device to a site and download a wordpress plugin that way. It worked, but I can't move the file from /home/admin/ to /var/data/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ (permissions - it's owned by www-data). I can't su/sudo or su www-data. Are these restrictions intentional? Any way around them?

Thanks!

Ross