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I'll point out that there is no "FTP account". It is the same as a regular user...it just has to have a shell listed in /etc/shells in order to have FTP access. So, when you create a virtual server, that user may or may not have FTP, depending on what shell is configured for the user.
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I'm really sorry, I'm a newbie.
How do I find out if there's a shell listed? or if what shell is configured for the user?
To get an idea of how it's configured, you can log into Virtualmin, and click "Edit Mail and FTP Users".
Where you see the list of users, what do you see in "Login Access"? Typically, a new user would have "Email and FTP" listed.
However, that's only part of the story -- a better gauge would be to log in as root over SSH, and to type this:
grep USERNAME /etc/passwd
The last field of the output is the shell (something like /dev/null or /bin/false, or maybe even /bin/bash).
That field needs to exist in the file /etc/shells.
-Eric
Wow! problem solved. You guys should get paid for this kind of support :) Thanks again.
<div class='quote'>You guys should get paid for this kind of support</div>
Sometimes we do. And, even when we don't, we're having fun, and that's what matters. ;-)
Glad you got it working.
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