Batch Add FTP Accounts and Directoreis

dmullerd

• February 13, 2014 20:57

I'm using cPanel to manage a web server and hosting for student websites in my web design course. I would like to give every student a directory for their web design work (domain.edu/student1) and access via ftp. How can I BATCH create all the directories and individual ftp accounts? Is this possible in cPanel? I also have root privileges via sudo in the command line but I'm less comfortable with this option. I searched the forum without much luck. Apologies if this covered elsewhere. Any help appreciated.

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  cPanelMichael

  • February 14, 2014 12:20

  Hello :) There are no native options that will allow you to create multiple FTP accounts at the same time. You would have to develop a custom script using the cPanel API. Documentation on our API is available at: [url=http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/SoftwareDevelopmentKit/]cPanel & WHM's SDK [url=http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/ApiDocs/Api2/ApiFtp]Ftp Module Documentation You can also submit a feature request for this via: Submit A Feature Request Thank you.

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  dmullerd

  • February 14, 2014 13:19

  [quote="cPanelMichael, post: 1572911">There are no native options.
  Should I be able to create my directories and accounts from the command line? Thanks, Daniel

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  cPanelMichael

  • February 14, 2014 13:43

  There are no included command line functions that create FTP accounts. However, creating a FTP account will automatically generate the subdirectory you assign it's privileges to. You can use the API referenced in my last post to develop a script that's ran over the command line. Thank you.

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