A fix for root user permissions problems
Error
We discovered that you are using the DigitalOcean One-Click install. You need to create a user with regular account privileges and migrate your installation to this user.
Solution
When you installed Ghost with the DigitalOcean One-Click install you probably set up your Ghost installation as a root user. As of Ghost-CLI 1.5.0, running Ghost commands as root is disallowed. Therefore you will need to migrate your current installation to a new Linux user.
Run the following steps as root user to fix it:
Add a new user:
adduser <user>
Add user to sudo group:
usermod -aG sudo <user>
Now create a new instance file and move to new user location:
mkdir -p /home/<user>/.ghost/
chown <user>:<user> /home/<user>/.ghost
mv /root/.ghost/config /home/<user>/.ghost/config
chown <user>:<user> /home/<user>/.ghost/config
Next, change into your ghost installation directory (/var/www/ghost/ is default in the DigitOcean One-Click installs) to change the ownership of your installation files:
cd /var/www/ghost
And then execute this command (might take a while):
find . -group root -user root -exec chown <user>:<user> {} \;
Last step, Login as new user:
su - <user>
You can check ghost ls now to see if your installation is still up and running.
