Setting up a New FTP Account.

[colorblindjimbo]

Hello everyone,

I've been trying to setup an ftp account with for my friend who is going to assist me in developing my site. When I create an account (name:dj), he only has access to the /dj directory. I've tried a few things (such as deleting the /dj field when creating the account), but nothing has worked.

I want to give him complete root access, is there a way to do this?

Thank in advance.
-James

[McCoy]

If you read the bottom half of the "Add FTP account" page in CPanel, it says:


Directions:
If you enter a single / in the directory box, the new FTP user will have access to the entire public_html directory and all directories under it. If you just want the new user to be able to access a sub-domain, just set the directory box to the same value as the sub-domain's root name, which is listed in parenthesis on the sub-domain section of this control panel.

Please be aware that the new user will have read/write access to the directory you choose and every directory below it. For example, if you choose to add the user john, and give the user access to /home/cactilio/public_html/john directory, the user will be able to add, edit, rename and remove any file or directory in /home/cactilio/public_html/john.

So, don't leave it blank, put "/"