Can't add a Website FTP access user

Virtualmin
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I am trying to create an ftp only user for one of my websites. When I click “add a Website FTP access user” and fill in/submit it I get the following:

Failed to save mailbox : Home directory must be an existing directory for website FTP users

I have another webmin/virtualmin box that this works fine on. But on this server, it doesn’t work. Any suggestions.

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Howdy,

Hmm, is there something unusual about your DocumentRoot for this particular domain?

Normally, that would be set to use /home/USERNAME/public_html – is this domain perhaps using a different path?

-Eric

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Hi Eric,

I mostly fixed the problem. I was messing around with specifying the “public_html” folder for that user and when I deleted the ftp user it deleted the public_html dir (as I read in other posts) - that’s why I was getting that error.

So now I can create the standard Wesite FTP user. However, by default my Virtualmin is making this user’s shell /dev/null, when it should be /bin/false. I simply changed that under Users/Groups so now I can login fine.

But how do I tell Virtualmin to give a Website FTP user a default of /bin/false for a shell each time I create a new Website FTP user. It should have been setup out of the box to do that. Maybe I changed one of the defaults somewhere?

Chris

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Howdy,

You can set the default shell that’s used by going into System Customization -> Custom Shells.

You’d want to tweak the shell used for when the “Access” is “FTP-only”.

-Eric