Knowledge Base

ftpsubaccount: Additional FTP Accounts

The ftpsubaccount utility is designed to manage additional FTP
accounts. The utility allows the following operations:

creating/deleting additional FTP accounts on subscriptions
changing additional FTP account login credentials and home directory

Usage

ftpsubaccount <command> [<login_name>] [
<option 1> <param> [<option 2> <param>] ... [<option N> <param>]
]

Example

The following command creates an additional FTP account for the user
j ohndoe on the subscription example.com, sets password userpass
for the user, and specifies the /httpdocs/about directory as the
default home directory for this account.

# ./ftpsubaccount --create johndoe -domain example.com -passwd userpass -home /httpdocs/about

Note: The directory /httpdocs/about must be created before running the
command, or the command will fail.

Commands

Command	Parameter	Description	Example
`--create` or `-c`	`<` `login_name` `>`	Creates the additional FTP account. Requires `-domain` and `-passwd` options.	To create an additional FTP account with login name JohnDoe and password userpass on the subscription example.com: plesk bin ftpsubaccount --create JohnDoe -passwd userpass -domain example.com