Managing FTP Accounts

Operator: <ftp-user>

XML Schema: ftpuser.xsd

Plesk version: Plesk 8.1 for Windows

API RPC version: 1.4.2.0

Plesk user: Plesk Administrator, Plesk Client

Description

Generally speaking, Plesk supports two types of FTP accounts: default and additional. The ftp-user operator affects only additional FTP accounts, accounts of the 'default' type are managed with the domain and webuser operators.

Default FTP accounts are the following:

• Domain user's account, which gives access to the whole domain directory. It is always created in Plesk during creating new domain account.
• Subdomain user's account, which gives access to subdomain's directory located in parent domain directory. It is created if the 'Create a separate FTP user account for this subdomain' option was defined while creating a subdomain.
• Web user's account, which gives access to web user's directory located in domain directory. It is always created in Plesk during creating new web user.

Additional FTP accounts are FTP accounts that can be created and used in addition to default ones. They bring flexibility to managing FTP access to domains, allowing users - other than domain, subdomain and web user - to access particular domain directory with particular rights.

Plesk Administrators can manage FTP accounts on all domains. Plesk Clients can manage FTP accounts on all domains created for their account on conditions that they are granted the FTP subaccount management permission.

Supported operations

• ADD creates FTP account on a domain specified by its name or ID
• SET changes properties of a specified FTP account
• DEL deletes FTP account from a specified domain
• GET retrieves information on properties of specified FTP accounts on particular domains