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Can't create additional FTP accounts

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I want to create several FTP accounts for one of my domains. The accounts would be locked into a single directory. I have tried all the help on the boards from here but it appears to be for older versions.

I am using Plesk 8.0.1 on Debian Sarge.

Can someone please explain how I would be able to do this, or at least lock the administrator account into one directory within httpdocs.

Finally, if anyone knows what SWSofts thinking was behind only allowing 2 FTP accounts, I would very much like to hear it becuase it makes no sense to me.
 
I saved the following information from a previous thread. I have not used it myself but I'm told that it works:

I sure hope this helps all those out there who have asked this question many times....



code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------HOWTO: Procedure to manually add additional domain FTP users on a Plesk Server. (JYee)

Using the shell since the Plesk control panel won't allow it in the GUI.
See notes at bottom for subdomain FTP users.

Assuming you already have an existing domain (example.com) with the primary FTP user
(jack) with password (schmidt) with home directory (/home/httpd/vhosts/example.com),
and you wish to create additional ftp users (jill and bob) with the same access privileges as jack:

Procedure:

Login to server via SSH as root.

Issue the shell command:
cat /etc/passwd |grep 'jack'

This will show you a line similar to the following:
jack:x:10041:10001::/home/httpd/vhosts/example.com:/usr/local/psa/bin/chrootsh

The first number (after the 2nd colon : ) is 10041, so this is the UID of user jack.
You will need this in the 'useradd' lines since useradd wants a number for the UID.

The second number (after the 3rd colon : ) is 10001, this is the GID (psacln), we won't need that right now.

Then do the following shell commands to create the users and passwords:
useradd -u 10041 -o -d /home/httpd/vhosts/example.com -g psacln -s /usr/local/psa/bin/chrootsh jill
useradd -u 10041 -o -d /home/httpd/vhosts/example.com -g psacln -s /usr/local/psa/bin/chrootsh bob
passwd jill (enter the new password and confirm it, does not have to be the same as jack's)
passwd bob (enter the new password and confirm it, does not have to be the same as jack's)

You should now be able to use an FTP client to login with that user's name and password.
User jill and bob should be able to see the example.com docroot just as user jack can.
You should NOT be able to browse above the example.com docroot directory.

All 3 users should have the same access to the files since they belong to the same group, so no matter
which of the users created or edited the file(s), all should be able to access/edit/whatever the same files.

For more information on the shell utilities used, use:
man useradd
man passwd

NOTES:

Since these are users defined at the OS level, when connecting with an FTP client, they would login with
username 'jill', 'bob', or 'jack'. They would NOT use '[email protected]'.

This also means that USERNAMES MUST BE UNIQUE.


Subdomain FTP users:

If you wanted to change their default directory and limit them to a Plesk created subdomain docroot,
in the useradd line above, you would change "/home/httpd/vhosts/example.com" to
"/home/httpd/vhosts/example.com/subdomains/subname". So if you wanted to create the same users, but
for a subdomain called 'awesome':

Then do the following shell commands to create the users and passwords:
useradd -u 10041 -o -d /home/httpd/vhosts/example.com/subdomains/awesome -g psacln -s /usr/local/psa/bin/chrootsh jill
useradd -u 10041 -o -d /home/httpd/vhosts/example.com/subdomains/awesome -g psacln -s /usr/local/psa/bin/chrootsh bob
passwd jill (enter the new password and confirm it, does not have to be the same as jack's)
passwd bob (enter the new password and confirm it, does not have to be the same as jack's)

Deleting an FTP user:
userdel jill

(Note: this will not delete any files unless you use the -r option
which you probably don't want to do if they are sharing files!)

Note: Plesk subdomains versus 4PSA subdomains:

Plesk creates their subdomains in /home/httpd/vhosts/example.com/subdomains
4PSA creates their subdomains in /home/httpd/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/subdomains
 
I tried that but the users get a 550 error and can't login.

I'm not sure if this is a Debian specific issue.
 
Works on Debian

I got it to work on Debian. Not sure what I did different, although the first time I accidentally used the userid of one of the web users, rather than the main account.
 
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