changing home directory for specific accounts

**junkiesnetwork** · 01-26-2005 04:10 PM

Here's our setup. We have a server with one hard drive in it. What we are trying to do is to have our clients have accounts in different directories. Similar to the rearrange feature.

We would like to keep all the paying customers in /home as it is currently set up, but we are going to be offering free hosting for several people, and would like to have all the free accounts in a totally seperate directory. This could be /home/free_hosting/<username> or it could be /home2/<username> or even /home_free/<username>. However, we only have one hard drive. We currently use ModernBill for the billing software.

Is there a way to make all of one type of packages (for instance a package called 'Free') have the users be created in a certain directory on our server? We would still need the paid accounts to be created in /home as they are now. I've looked at 'Default Home Directory' and 'Home Directory Prefix' under the server configuration, but these don't seem to be what I'm looking for.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

**onegeek** · 02-05-2005 04:25 PM

I'd like to see if anyone has an answer to this question too. Mike

**PWSowner** · 02-05-2005 08:00 PM

Could be done with a postwwwacct script. When an account is created, postwwwacct is run afterwards, if it exists. That script could move the users directory and symlink to it's new location, but in most respects, it won't change much.

The big question is, why do you want them put elsewhere?

**onegeek** · 02-05-2005 10:14 PM

Basically, one of my clients wanted a master login for all of his sites. On our old server, he could log in and change directories within his own home directory to update his sites.

His sites were owned by one userid on the old server.

It's just that he doesn't want to change.... and who doesn't

...if it's already working.

Later on, man

**PWSowner** · 02-06-2005 01:10 AM

That's already possible. It's called addon domains. The addon domain function puts the new domain account in the main domains public_html directory. Each domain has it's own files (site contents) but they are all in the one account.