Give a user full home directory access

[Brayden]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone can help me out here.

When a domain is created in Plesk and the user is given shell access, the home directory for that domain is /var/www/vhosts/domainName

The user account associated with the account/domain is given write access to /var/www/vhosts/domainName/httpdocs as it is owned by them, but they are not given full access to /var/www/vhosts/domainName as it appears to be owned by "root"/

Is there a way when creating a shell account for a user that they can be given full, complete access to /var/www/vhosts/domainName and all sub-directories to be able to edit files in there?

Thanks in advance!

Brayden

 

[raaqi]

anon_ftp, cgi-bin, httpdocs, httpsdocs and private should be owned by that ftp user. Not sure why everything is owned by root.

You can always chown the directory from the SSH consol

chown username: psaserv -R httpdocs/

Should do the trick

 

[Brayden]

No I need to know why the "home" directory is owned by root and not the user, not the httpdocs directory.

TIA,

Brayden

 

[raaqi]

That's just how plesk is. If you don't like it. Just chown everything to the user under the home directory. Problem solved.

 

[freaky@]

Perhaps it has to do with normal users not modifying vhost.conf, screwing up directory structure, removing logs, etc... Unless ofcourse you like them overriding stuff...

 

[Brayden]

I followed http://forum.swsoft.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2666&highlight=home+directory

While in the home directory (/vhosts/domain.com) (while su'd) "chown usernameheresaserv ."

(Yes that's a dot)

 

[freaky@]

Sure hope you understand the risks n such...

Those rights aren't there for nothing you know, somebody (probably more knowledgable than us) has put thought in that. For example there is a conf directory in there that will pretty much allow to override any apache/php configuration there is. They might as well use vhost.conf to configure 90 other domains and never pay for them.