Adding chrooted FTP users outside of Plesk

To add a chrooted FTP user outside of Plesk properly, you need to:

  • Create the user with the home directory as the root of what they can access
  • Give the user a password
  • Make their primary group psacln
  • Add them to the psaserv group as well

# useradd username -d /var/www/html/website/slideshow/
# echo "password" | passwd username --stdin
Changing password for user username.
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
# usermod -g psacln username
# usermod -G psaserv username
# lftp username:password@localhost
lftp username@localhost:/> cd ..
lftp username@localhost:/>

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Printed from: http://rackerhacker.com/2007/04/27/adding-chrooted-ftp-users-outside-of-plesk/ .
© Major Hayden 2010.

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