ftp account for root user?

**noimad1** · 03-02-2009 05:49 PM

I have a customer with a dedicated server that wants to be able to ftp into root. Is this at all possible?

**daveformerlyof** · 03-03-2009 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by noimad1

I have a customer with a dedicated server that wants to be able to ftp into root. Is this at all possible?

This is a huge security risk. Any reason why they can't use SFTP? It uses File Transfer over SSH and is much more secure. Most modern FTP clients support SFTP

**hicom** · 03-07-2009 03:05 AM

It seems cPanel by default under Pure-FTPD configs allow root password to be used to login to ANY account.

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