Re: [cobalt-users] FTP directory

[Bill Gunning <billgun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> Sorry for appearing thick, but I too have looked at the archives for FTP
and
>> accessing straight into the user web directory,  but only found too that I
>> should look at the /etc/passwd file. Having little experience with linux
>> there seems a lot of important stuff in there that a clumsy fingered person
>> might alter by mistake (not that I don't backup everything before making
>> changes).

I do-not recommend editing the /etc/passwd file, because if you change
the directory from site##/user/info to /site##/web and then you or
the siteadmin deletes this user from the GUI, then the GUI will
delete the site## folder instead of /site##/users/info folder.

Just inform all of your users to change their initial remote
hosts directory in their FTP programs to ../../web

Hopefully someday Cobalt will add to their GUI some remote
directory options when creating a user ... Something like
1) users/NAME/web
2) /web/NAME
3) /FTP Only
4) Email Only

Bill