Question

So I google’d around and found these instructions on how to create an FTP user and give him access to a directory

    To create FTP user through SSH you would need to follow below mentioned steps:

1. Login as root through SSH.

2. Next add the user account you want using the 'useradd' command

useradd <username>

3. Now create a special group for that user.

groupadd <groupname>

4. Now to add the user to the group

gpasswd -a <username> <groupname>

These commands are non-standard but
available on most popular
distributions. If not, then you can
try editing /etc/group using your
favorite text editor.

5. Change the group ownership of the special directory to that group.

chgrp -Ra groupname
/path/to/your/web/directory

6. Enable write permissions

chmod -R g+rw

/path/to/your/web/directory

Now that was great and all, but the problem is that on ftp, my user (named jon) logs into the directory /home/jon instead of the Oxford directory I set for his group, as per instructions: `/home/domain/public_html/wallpaper

If you want to change the permissions you should use the binary option rather than alphabetical. For example:

chmod 777 – for all users to do all. You would probably be better with 755 though with what you want.

Answer 1

You could try to change the users home directory to /home/domain/public_html/wallpapers by editing it in the /etc/passwd file.

But more information would be great. It all depends on your operating system and the ftp server.