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Changing FTP home directory

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by clinch, May 8, 2006.

  1. clinch

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    I'm trying to set up a site using cpanel, and I would like to change the user's FTP home directory to something other than the default. Currently, I have set up a new account for this site, and as expected, when the user logs in via FTP, he/she is brought to:

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    /home/username/
    I would like to modify this one site (note I do not want to change all the sites on my system) so that when the user logs in via FTP, he/she has an FTP home directory of:

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    /home/username/public_html/dev/
    This way, I can ensure that all the files uploaded to this directory are going to the right directory. Is there a file or database that contains this information? Can I make the change through WHM or Cpanel, or is it something I must do manually?

    Any advice is greatly appreciated.
     
    #1 clinch, May 8, 2006
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    With cpanel interface, you can create many ftp accounts, which creates home folder for that user in the /home/username/public_html/ftpusername

    hope thats what you are asking
     
    #2 xerophyte, May 8, 2006
  3. clinch

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    Not really what I'm looking for. I know that I can create accounts like that, but I'm hoping there's a way to change the default FTP home directory for a user. Essentially, I do not want the user to have access to anything above public_html/dev/

    There doesn't seem to be anything in WHM or Cpanel to handle this.
     
    #3 clinch, May 8, 2006
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    you can correct this by userdmod -d /home/username/public_html/dev username
    or just by editing /etc/passwd
    but you need to think about how cpanel will work with this setting in future.
     
    #4 rustelekom, May 8, 2006
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