How to Setup FTP User for admin

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Hi,

I am using Linux with OS Debian 12 installed. I have just installed sympl.

I can login via FTP if I use the username ‘root’.
How do I create an FTP user for ‘admin’ with access to just /srv/

Thank you in advance.

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Welcome!

It sounds like you may be looking for SFTP (FTP over SSH) with a chroot jail. That’s not something Sympl supports at the moment, but you can log in with the user ‘sympl’ which has limited access most things but access to the Sympl configuration in /srv/ and /etc/sympl/.

If you create a domain/site, you can allow access only to the public/ directory (and things in there like logs/ and htdocs/) by creating the file config/ftp-password and adding a password to it.

Then you can log in with FTP-S (regular FTP with TLS Encryption) with a normal FTP client by using the domain as the username.

Sympl FTP configuration documentation is on the wiki.