How do I create a user for WordPress to do FTP stuff with, and give it proper permissions?

I am setting up wordpress on my Ubuntu server.
To install a wordpress theme, I need to provide wordpress with an FTP account that it can use to download the theme files.

I tried my usual FTP user and it is saying “cannot create directory ….”

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How do I create an FTP user that wordpress can use to install themes and give it the proper permissions it needs to do so?

Running VSFTPD on Ubunu 12.04 with Webmin

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  1. First create an FTP user, the set them to the WordPress group. The FTP user must have access permission to your upload, tmp, and template folders.