FTP Accounts

Here you can create additional FTP users in addition to your primary FTP account web999. This allows you to give other people access to certain directories within your website.

To do this, click on

An FTP user only has encrypted access via FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) to the assigned Home directory and its subdirectories. In principle, you can create additional FTP users for the following different purposes:

• Data Transfer or Data Storage: You want to exchange files (e.g. PDFs, images, print templates,...) with other users. To do this, create a directory under /var/www/web999/files/. This directory is intended for private data that should not be available within your website. All directories that are not located below public_html are not «published».
• Website maintenance: You want to give other users the possibility to maintain parts of your website (e.g. a subdomain or a subdirectory). To do this, give the FTP user rights to the corresponding directory below /var/www/web999/public_html/. WARNING: Such an FTP user has write access to an executable directory. This means that they can upload malware and, in extreme cases, delete the entire website or gain access to the web application database.

Primary FTP user

The Primary FTP user web999 cannot be edited. You can only change its password. However, it cannot be set to «read-only» or deactivated. Create additional FTP users to use the full functionality.

We recommend that you don't pass the credentials of the primary FTP user to any third party, as this user has full access to your entire web home /var/www/web999/.

Password

When creating an FTP user, providing a password is optional. If you do not enter a password, a random 12-character password will be generated automatically by our system. The password will then be displayed here immediately after the FTP user has been created (only once!).

Our password requirements:

• Minimum length: 10 characters
• The password must contain at least 1 number (0-9)
• The password must contain at least 1 lower case letter (a-z)
• The password must contain at least 1 upper case letter (A-Z) or a special character
• The password must have a minimum complexity according to the Zxcvbn algorithm and must not be compromised.

Home directory

An additional FTP user only has access to the defined home directory and its subdirectories via FTPS. An additional FTP account therefore makes sense if you trust your users but want to protect the other sections of the website against unintentional deletion. Try to restrict the home directory of the corresponding FTP user as much as possible.

Under Home directory, select the relative path based on your web home /var/www/web999/.

If you do not select anything under Home directory, you are creating an equally powerful FTP user as the primary web999, which has access to all your hosting data.

If you only want to give a web designer or a web agency access to the website data, enter /public_html/www (for the main domain) or /public_html/relaunch (for the «relaunch» subdomain) here, for example.

Write permissions

Read-Only: Activate this option to grant the FTP user read-only access. They will not be able to change or delete the data or add new files.

Existing FTP users can be switched from read-write to read-only by clicking on the icon in the Permission column.

Activation

Possible status of an FTP user:

Status	Description
active	The FTP user is active, login via FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) is permitted.
disabled	The FTP user is deactivated. No login is possible. This gives you the same security as deleting an FTP user, but you can reactivate it later.