I am trying to find a way to allow several web users FTP access to my site but I need for them to be limited to their working directiries as they log in. I was able to do this easily with Plesk 5 but cannot seem to figure out how to do it in Plesk 6. can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,
-SH-

im not sure if its possible, RS Chris has helped me look for some documentation showing how to do it and found nothing... looking around the server i cant seem to find anything ftp related for the single domain either, looks like plesk have hidden it somewhere, probably in mysql somehow

OMG! Please tell me that's not true! There must be some way to do this most basic of admin requests. Is there a workaround, maybe setting up ftp accounts manually, would that cause issues w/ Plesk or is it even possible? I hope somebody knows...

Webusers can only access their webuser directory, nothing more.

What if you manually set up FTP user accounts in Linux, any idea what effect that would that have on Plesk? I'm screwed unless I can figure a way to give my staff access to their own directories. I have some guys doing custom scripting and coding for me that only do this with the agreement that nobody else gets access to their stuff.

Plesk obviously removed this feature intentionally. Am I the only one that sees this as ridiculous? LOL. Surely someone else has ran into this problem and found a way to work around it.

They haven't removed anything related to FTP or webusers. Explain what you did in PSA5 and that might give me an idea what you are talking about doing in Plesk 6.

Thanks so much for offering to help Cranky. I don't remember the exact steps in PSA5, it's been a little over a year since I set that site up. But basically I could create a directory within my site (default domain on the server), then create a new user and set up his FTP access so when he logged in he was limited to the directory I created. That way he could not get access to other files in other directories.

That may not be the best explanation but I hope that helps Cranky, my site is supposed to be up and running on the 1st of Sept and I told my staff we'd be ready to start moving into the server on Aug 1st - I'm over a week late trying to figure this out.

Thanks again my friend!

That has never been possible from within Plesk, unless you are referring to actual web-users. A web user does not access a directory you create within httpdocs, they access via a new directory which Plesk creates within web_users. Every web-user is restricted to their own webuser directory.

You can then access this users directory via http://www.domain.com/~webusername

Is this what you are looking for?

I guess that will work Cranky, but I don't recall PSA5 putting a tilde mark on the directory. At any rate, can you tell me where to go in Plesk 6 to do that? When I set up a new web user under my domain it asked for FTP password and username, but it did not ask for a directory. It gave him access to the entire domain.

Thanks again Cranky

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well not sure myself if you can do this thur plesk but for sure you can if you use webmin, which will allow alot more user control. Webmin and plesk make a good combination however I don't suggest that you use all the controls that are in webmin, however for setting up client access to specified directories, custom commands, ability to upload and download and edit files thur the interface it is sweet. You can control how much or how littlle access you want them to have and its quick to do

Just remember there's a lot of stuff in Webmin that Plesk likes to control - it's not difficult to break Plesk using Webmin.