title: What is the best way to make a directory writable (application deployed on EC2)?
body: <p>With a PHP application deployed on Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, I've been using git and eb to manage my environment instances and all files. I need to change the permissions on a file directory to make it writable but git doesn't take care of transferring directory permissions. What's the simplest/fastest way to get this done from a mac? </p>
  
  <p>Filezilla takes a long time to configure. I can SSH into my EC2 instance but still not sure how to change the permissions for my directory.   </p>