Adding FTP Access to secondary users to an individual directory. Webfaction

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1. Allow the other user account to locate directories that it has access to within your home directory.

  setfacl -m u:secondary_username:--x $HOME
  
2. Remove the other user’s default access to the applications

  setfacl -m u:secondary_username:--- $HOME/webapps/new_app

3. Grant the user read, write, and execute access to the application’s files and directories

  setfacl -R -m u:secondary_username:rwx $HOME/webapps/application

4. Grant the user read, write, and execute access to any files and directories created in the application in the future

  setfacl -R -m d:u:secondary_username:rwx $HOME/webapps/application

5. Set your account’s group as the owner of any new files in the application’s directory.

  chmod g+s $HOME/webapps/application

6. Grant your account full access to files in the application directory, including any files created in the future by the secondary user

  setfacl -R -m d:u:primary_username:rwx $HOME/webapps/application
  
7. The secondary can add a convenience symlink from their home directory to the application directory. To create the symlink:

  ln -s /home/primary_username/webapps/application $HOME/application