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SFTP without SSH

by Aromal Rajagopal | Aug 13, 2009 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue : How to allow SFTP but disallow shell-level access ? Solution : To allow SFTP access but without shell access, you must first enable (jailed) shell via WHM. But then run the following so they do not have command line/shell access: usermod -s...

Changing number of files listed in FTP

by Aromal Rajagopal | Aug 5, 2009 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue : The FTP program lists only 1000 files in a directory. How can this be changed? Fix : Go to the FTP configuration file ( in this case, /etc/pure-ftpd.conf ). Change the value in the following line : LimitRecursion 1000...

Disabling FTP access for a particular cPanel account

by Aromal Rajagopal | Jun 22, 2009 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Issue: FTP access for specific cPanel accounts needs to be disabled. There is no native way in cPanel/WHM to achieve this. Solution : Assuming that you are using pure-ftpd, go to /usr/sbin/pureauth . There would be a section in the code as follows : # Create ftpusers...

FTP Upload: Time Out Error

by Aromal Rajagopal | Mar 5, 2009 | Quick fixes, Technical | 0 comments

Usually Time Out Error occurs when we try to upload large files. We need to check following on our local system: 1. Try enabling “passive mode” in FTP client. 2. Check personal firewall/security settings, programs like Norton Anti-Virus to make sure that...