finally after spending all night getting proftpd working correctly on a new test box.
im struggerling with ftp folder permissions though.
could somone tell me or show me how to allocate a user to a certain folder....
for example ive added the username apple to ftp and when user apple logs in I want him to see the apple folder as his home folder and access to everything in apple.
i thought it was... useradd -h /home/userarea/apple apple but it doesnt seem to work.
I need to create a subfolder under my domain name, and assign an ftp user to that folder. I want the user to only have access to that folder, is it possible? can you guys orient me, because I have no idea where to start, my hosting service provider is telling me I can only have one ftp account per domain, maybe I didn't explain correctly to my hosting provider.
i have been fumbling around trying to set up a first site on a fresh install of debian on a server... seems like helplessly for hours and hours, trying to figure out how this ftpd works with debian
there are only 2 files from what i see on the server
ftpchroot and ftpusers - i fianlly found the manual 'man ftpd' this helped a little...
i found this in another thread, to maybe help with adding a user, does not work in my setup...
adduser --home /home/username --shell /bin/false username (how do i remove this user that does not work?)
my server path to sites is this /home/www/html/websitename.com/html
I thought I knew enough about my .htaccess stuff to do this, but I can't seem to work it out. What I want to do is if a user visits domain.com/folder, we check to see if the folder exists. If so, show as normal (IE domain.com/support)
If a user visits domain.com/dynamicusername (dynamicusername is not a physical folder), redirect to dynamicusername.domain.com
I may have this wrong, but I think it's possible. I have a friend who wants to run a process on one of my servers, now I don't particularly 'care' about this server, it's just used for a couple of unimportant things so I'm okay with him running it, but I don't want the hassle of sorting out things if he decides to delete everything, so I'm hoping it's possible to limit his directory.
For example, I have the folder "people" in the top most directory, inside that I have "arthur", I want to limit the ssh user "arthur" to the folder "arthur", I don't want him to be able to cd ../../ and delete stuff, is this possible?
I have a website where a directory is user/password protect and i want not to be prompted for the user/password when coming from a certian ip (workplace).
I would like my Plesk users to each have access to the mail folder for their domain. cPanel appears to do this by default by creating a folder named /home/user/mail which contains a subfolder for each domain name. Plesk, however, places all email folders together in the /var/qmail/mailnames folder. I would like to end up with a structure similar to how cPanel does it, but it looks like there are at least a couple of ways to accomplish that and I'm not sure what would be the most safe, reliable way to do it.
One way I can think to do it would be to override the Plesk dovecot config by adding a new config file to /etc/dovecot/conf.d. I think changing the values for mail_home and mail_location as follows would possibly work.
Old values: mail_home = /var/qmail/mailnames/%Ld/%Ln mail_location = maildir:/var/qmail/mailnames/%Ld/%Ln/Maildir​
New values: mail_home = /var/www/vhosts/%Ld/mail/%Ld/%Ln mail_location = maildir:/var/www/vhosts/%Ld/mail/%Ld/%LnMaildir​
I see a potential issue with this solution; the %Ld for an add-on domain will probably be the add-on domain, and there will not be a folder within /vhosts/ with that name. Perhaps there is another variable for the primary domain that I could use there.
A second way I can think to do it would be to add a symlink in /var/www/vhosts/domain/ named "mail" that points to the actual mail folder for a domain. Again, issues would probably occur here with add-on domains, and I also can't see a way to automate this. I also predict permissions issues with this solution.
how can i create directories in my (public_html / htdocs folder) that have disk space and traffic quota?
i activated the disk quota to the native linux file system and i tried to create a user but i could not put this user in any folder in the public_html (i dont know how to do this) also there is no option to create bandwidth quota..
one more detail is that the folders need to be protected with login and password because people may try to enter this folders (e.g. www.mydomain.com/protectedfolder)
all this using webmin or another free good script.
I want to know how do I add new IP to my server via SSH command?
I am using cPanel and I am aware I can do that inside WHM but the problem now is I have just changed my server IP and my cPanel license IP is not updated yet. It shows me "Invalid License" when I login.
I also want to know how can I assign the new IP manually via SSH?
I'm running centOS 5 and I have a java process, it runs from the main IP. The Java process communicates with an external server, this server only allows 2 connections per IP. I have this process running twice on the main IP, therefore using both the single IP connections. My server has multiple IPs and I want to run another copy of this java process from another IP.
installing a softarwe that used port 8088, but that port is used by plesk. What ports not used by plesk and how do I assigned one to this new software.
For one of may domains I'm receiving the following error when someone tries to send mail to it. Also I never receive the mail as it seems to just sit on the server. When the permission were changed on the file, it seemed to have changed back on its on when ever a new address is added. Any solutions?
