A problem I’ve encountered which turned up not-too-much in Google is in creating ftp user accounts that just have a user name [name], as opposed to [name]@[domain.com]. Even though the latter is standard, the former is also very popular but is not officially supported on a standard cpanel installation. So how do you go about this?
First of all, you will need access to WHM on the server. From here, change the FTP Server from Pure-FTP to ProFTPD. This is a reasonably significant change and you should research the differences to be sure that you really want to go ahead with this. However, if you’re lucky, this may be all you need to do to swap it over. Keep reading if not.
The configuration file for ProFTPD should be found here: /etc/proftpd.conf . You may need to make changes, but back it up if you do. Make sure it has…
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