EC2 - creating a new user that has access to same directory

I've setup an EC2 with "bitnami" that creates a linux user bitnami@myproject.com as a user for me to access with my keyfile.

Once signed in via ssh by doing ssh -i mykeyfile.pem bitnami@12.23.43.32 and hitting ls I get apps bitnami_credentials htdocs stack

I now want to create a new user that is also able to connect to this location. Therefore I read https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/managing-users.html

I did sudo adduser developer, created a keypair on the EC2 dashboard and by using keygen I created the public key for this user.

And … I'm able to connect to the server with ssh -i developer.pem developer@12.23.43.32 however this user does not see any files if I type ls -a. I only get . .. .bash_logout .bashrc .cache .profile .ssh

How can I make sure this new user also is able to work with the directories that "bitnami" has to work with?

Solution

Whenever you do ssh to instance, after login the user directory is set to its home directory. In your case, it should be /home/developer.

To view directories that you see in bitnami user home directory you have to switch directory after login as developer.

run ssh -i mykeyfile.pem bitnami@12.23.43.32 after login type pwd or the path of the directory where you see apps bitnami_credentials htdocs stack, for example, it should be /home/bitnami.
Now log as developer ssh -i developer.pem developer@12.23.43.32 and now change your directory to the one that you got in first command. cd /home/bitnami

If you see permission then you need to set permission. You can add developer user to bitnami. You can check for permission here and here