title: Gaining root access on ec2
body: <p>I am trying to write to my /var/www/ folder on my apache server that I setup on EC2.  All of the permissions are set to the 'root' user, but amazon only lets you login to their AMI as 'ec2-user'.</p>
  
  <p>I am using WinSCP.  I logged in as ec2-user using ssh, and executed sudo su, so I can gain root access that way.  But how do I go about having that same access through my SFTP (WinSCP) as well as through putty?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>