ftp without @domain.com

[dgammon]

Wondering if there is a way to access ftp on cpanel (via third party software) to have it where you don't have to have: username@domain.com. Instead, just use the username. For instance, you can use just the username when using the "main" username, but if I set up additional FTP accounts, those people must use "username@domain.com"

Hope this makes sense.....

thanks for the help

[B12Org]

That would be a horrible idea. Then that would mean that there could be only one peter, one john, one admin, etc. on the entire server. If you get even 50 customers, each having 5 ftp sub accounts, thats 250 ftp accounts, and then they would statrt to overlap at some point.

Possible sure, but very Bad idea

[dgammon]

Well, this is my case: there is a client that I host that doesn't want to put in the @domain.com for FTP (can you say pain in the aS$)

He wants five ftp accounts only having to put in the username and password.

So let's say in WS_FTP he would put ftp://whateverdomain.com then username: "username" and password: "password" instead of having to put:

username: "username@whateverdomain.com" password: "password"

See what I mean? is there a way to do this? The limitation of number of users will only be on his domain if he is ftp'ing to ftp://whateverdomain.com right?

Is there a way?

Thanks

[chirpy]

e limitation of number of users will only be on his domain if he is ftp'ing to ftp://whateverdomain.com right?

Not on a standard installation no - it doesn't matter which domain you come in on.

However, if you have the customer on a dedicated IP address and running proftpd, then you can do this.

At the bottom of your /etc/proftpd.conf file add a VirtualHost directive using the IP address for this account (replace 11.22.33.44) and their main account username (replace username):

<VirtualHost 11.22.33.44>
        AuthUserFile /etc/proftpd/username
        DefaultRoot ~ !wheel
</VirtualHost>

Then, stop and restart proftpd:
/etc/init.d/proftpd stop
/etc/init.d/proftpd start

Remember - They must be on their own IP address. You can actually achieve this with a shared IP address, but the VirtualHost would have to run on a different port to 21 (e.g. 2121) and the user would have to change their FTP client to use this port instead of the standard one. To do that you would need to add the Port 2121 directive inside the VirtualHost container.

[dgammon]

thank you chirpy!