Question How to set up an FTP user to have access to specific folders from another users home folders?

[Sep B.]

Hi there,
I have been searching online for a couple of days for this situation I have, but I can't find a solution to it. Maybe someone here can help me out.
I have Plesk installed on one of my servers and I manage some websites with it. I also have an application running on the server that is running from the home directory of a user that was created specifically for that application alone.

So my question here is this:
How can I make it so an FTP user I create on Plesk (example: Domain1-PleskFTPUser) to have access to a specific folder from another users' home location (example: /home/application-user/application/target-folder)? I would need the FTP user to have recursive read and write access to that "target-folder" so I don't need to always manually connect over SSH, swap to "application-user", check the files I need and download some of them, edit a few and upload the modified ones back to the server.

Thanks for any tips or hints you could give me to sort this situation out.

 

[vimobe]

have you try the following:

Easier solution to solve this is by creating 2 account and use Mobaxterm. You may login to multiple account and edit on the fly

 

[Sep B.]

Thanks for the reply but that won't work. I already use Mobaxterm but the server is made in such a way that only 1 account has SSH access from a specific IP. Every other account can't be accessed through a direct SSH connection.

I also need the FTP functionality because the files I need to edit are actually used by another software on my end, but this software supports FTP so it could grab them automatically.

 

[Hex]

You need root permission to manually modify the group for that user to grant both permission to access the same folder.
Plesk ftp user have access to domain root directory by default.

 

[Sep B.]

Thanks for the reply and for the tip. I will have a look and sort it out then.
Much appreciated.