Creating a New Virtual Server

Hey Leon,

<i>But on the FTP, when i create users i can let them point into the 2nd domain home dir right? Even tho there login comes from a different site?</i>

I'm not sure what you mean? I don't see how users in a wholly separate domain could safely have the required permissions to do anything in another home directory...and I can't figure out why you'd want them to?

If you want several domains managed by one user, make them all owned by the same user (just create them as, or convert them to, sub-servers owned by one domain account user). There are tricks you can play with group membership to make a specific user in another domain capable of doing things in another domain, but I probably wouldn't recommend it, and strongly suspect there's a better supported mechanism for doing what you want.

Anyway, what you're after is going to be specific to the FTP server--not really related to Virtualmin. Most FTP servers (including our default ProFTPd) is limited by file system permissions, in addition to applying its own access control rules on top of that. So, even if you could convince the FTP server to drop the user into a directory that doesn't belong to them upon login, they won't have the privileges needed to do anything with it, unless you add them to the group that owns the directory and files (and even then, the files may be set writable only by the owner, in which case group membership won't matter).

Clear as mud? Maybe you should tell us what you're trying to accomplish...that may help me give better guidance on how to go about it. I'm talking in a lot of theoretical language because I don't have a concrete goal to work towards. ;-)

Hey Leon,

Whoah! I see where the confusion is coming from. You're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. ;-)

You're assuming that you need to check the little box next to &quot;Setup IP-based virtual FTP?&quot; in order to allow users to login to this domain via FTP. You don't. FTP is always available for any user that has a shell that is listed in /etc/shells...you don't have to &quot;enable&quot; FTP for your domain users to be able to login via FTP. There's a FAQ about this feature:

http://www.virtualmin.com/faq/one-faq?faq_id=1511#1831

We renamed this option about a year ago to try to relieve this confusion (and stop people from thinking they needed this option just to allow FTP access, when almost no one needs it--probably just that one person who asked for it 3 years ago), but it didn't work. We still get a lot of queries about this...so I think we just need to remove the option, and make people jump through hoops to make it visible.

If you're having trouble with your FTP service, let me know...but you shouldn't have to jump through any hoops to allow a domain owner to login to their home directory.