Remove "public_html" from default FTP Account path

Hello, my users don't want their FTP folders to be in the publicly accessible www folder, so in the past I've been able to remove the "public_html" from the default FTP directory path (when a user creates a new FTP Account) by editing this file:
/usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/x3/js2-min/ftp/accounts.js

But I just updated cPanel today and now this edit no longer works. Any ideas how I could still achieve this?

ps: if helpful, the original thread where I got solution that no longer seems to work is here:
https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/customizing-the-directory-path-for-ftp-users.162002

 

Hi, the default account is used by customers to navigate to the other FTP Accounts setup in cPanel, so I need to leave that enabled.

Essentially, If I could figure out which file cpanel is using when creating the accounts, I should be good to go. Apparently it is no longer using usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/x3/js2-min/ftp/accounts.js so does anyone know which file it uses now?

thanks,
Joseph

 

Well I figured out that in version 11.48.4, I was able to edit /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/x3/ftp/list_ftp.tt to remove the onchange="suggest_homedir()" and it no longer fills in "public_html" for the FTP Account path. Of course I made a backup and tested it within my own config to make sure all still ran smooth on my particular server.

Just a note: I really think cPanel should stop assigning all those FTP Accounts to be subfolders of the WWW directory, which makes them publicly accessible by default.

hope this helps