How do I create a "master" FTP Account in Plesk?

[dekket]

Hi.

I wish to create a FTP account which will see all sites within the server. A 'master' ftp account, if you will. This so that I won't have to use multiple accounts when managing my customers' sites.
Is it possible to do through Plesk?

 

[abdi]

That is not possible with Plesk. However you can create a usual FTP account and then manually edit it's parent director to /var/www/vhosts/

 

[dekket]

I've tried that, but can't get it to work.
useradd master -p '**********' -d /var/www/vhosts/ -s /bin/false

But I can't connect with that. It says wrong password, but that seems insane since it's copied and pasted. I suspected that it had to do with the rights of the home directory, but I added the group 'root' to the user so it out to be able to at least list the directory.

Any ideas?

 

[abdi]

It should work ...

Alternatively, create the FTP account from Plesk normally and then through your Shell, edit "/etc/passwd" and change the path to the /var/www/vhosts

Set the correct group ...

I have done this with ISPConfig3 + Debian though I have not fully tested it with Plesk ..

 

[abdi]

More info also here:

http://serverfault.com/questions/199834/add-user-proftpd-with-plesk-on-debian

 

[dekket]

That worked, however I can't browse the sub folders... I've added the group 'psaserv' to the user, which allowed me to enter each folder, but not list their contents.
I'd like to avoid chmod'ing anything, since I'd have to do that for every new customer added probably...

Ideas?

 

[abdi]

How about adding 'psacln' group too?

 

[dekket]

Nope, that didn't work either... still listing completely blank directories.