Re: [cobalt-users] Single user as admin for multiple sites, plus ftp access

["Michael Zimmermann" <zim@xxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Pumphrey" <dpumphre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I have setup a single linux user as a admin for multiple sites [...]
> Now, the problem I run into is when the user ftps into the box.  It
> obviously drops the user into their home dir, which by default is for
> the first site you set them up to admin - and proftpd chroot's the
> environment so the user can not browse the filesystem (good thing) so my
> questions is how to give them ftp access to the other sites they admin
> so they can upload content.

I think, you could:

Create additional webs in the (let's call it) "main site".
So the admin has web1, web2, web3, web4 ... and so on.
Put the real files here. This way proftp can access them.
Have symbolic links from the other sites to the main site
and/or talk Apache into using these links resp. the directories
of the main site.

I would:

Talk the customer into using different accounts, like admin1, admin2, 
admin3 ... for the different sites (why not with identical passwords).
That is more secure and more flexible than the "all eggs into one basket",
and it means no changes to critical software/configuration components.
That should make up for the additional organisational problems.


Michael