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How to create ftp user with access to subfolder in the another user's home directory?

Posted December 29, 2014 7.4k views

Hello.
I have some user, for example, “example” :) And his home directory is /var/www/example/, where are sites folders (/var/www/example/example.com). For ftp access I use this user’s login “example” and his password.
But. I need to create another one ftp user, with access to the folder /var/www/example/example.com/subfolder and only to this folder.
I can’t create a unix user with such home directory. Is there a way to resolve this problem?

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kamaln7 December 29, 2014

Actually, you can create a user with /var/www/example/example.com/subfolder as its home directory:

adduser --home /var/www/example/example.com/subfolder --group username
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saband December 29, 2014

Indeed. I just tried to use already existing directory as home, that’s why it didn’t work.
Thank you.

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  • gndo December 30, 2014

    Interesting. Assuming you have both users in some common group, and you made the first parts of the path be executable only by the group, i.e., no read/write group, can you just then create a link to the new subdirectory from /home?

    So, /var/www/example/example.com will have path permissions of user rwx, group –x, others —. Then create /var/www/example/example.com/newguyfolder be owned by your newguy account with rwx permissions for newguy. Finally, your newguy’s home folder will be a soft link from /var/www/example/example.com/newugyfolder to /home/newguy

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