This section describes how to set up distinct per-domain FTP/FTPS users. Where with the old setup you may have logged in with a user like:
my-brilliant-site.com
With this method you can have many users, of the form:
bob@my-brilliant-site.com alice@my-brilliant-site.com charlie@my-brilliant-site.com
Users can be limited to specific directories, and quotas imposed on each, so bob@my-brilliant-site.com may be limited to eg, htdocs, which works out as /srv/my-brilliant-site.com/public/htdocs. These domain-based users do not have SSH/SFTP access.
Each user is defined using four fields, added to /srv/my-brilliant-site.com/config/ftp-users:
username password directory (limited to directories in /srv/my-brilliant-site.com/public) quota
Configuration for giving bob access and a quota of 10 megabytes will look like so:
bob:your-password-here:htdocs:10M
This can be done for any number of users - all are specified in the same ftp-users file.
Please be aware that despite being limited to the public/
directory when logging in over FTP/FTPS, it is trivial for the user to read
files elsewhere on the filesystem, for example by using specially
written PHP scripts. It is advisable to grant access only to trusted
people.
Please be aware that the FTP quota will include all log data from the
web-server in public/logs/, as well as the automatically
generated statistics in public/htdocs/stats/.
In addition