ftp and I gues permissions question

[vivaciti]

Hi,
Not so much a problem more of I dont know how to do something

Here is what I am trying to set up for one of my customers:

Have set up an FTP area, and created an FTP account for the folder, under that folder have created more folder, with a separate ftp account for each, the idea is their designers upload a file to a folder so only the person who has the ftp details for that folder can get access to it, I upload a file, log off then log on as the other user, but I can not see the file.
If I do it the other way around, and upload a file as the second user to that folder, then log back on as the first user, also can not see the file, so I guess it has something to do with ownership permissions, but not sure where to set this. I have made the folder 777 for the sake of test, but this does not seem to make a difference.

Any help would be great (hope I made it clear what I am trying to do!)

Cheers in advance.

[247h]

Well, I for one am uncertain how you configured your setup — presumably you did this using the FTP Accounts utility in that account's cPanel? Please explain the setup in more detail and what you're using to FTP into folders?

What confuses me is "...the idea is their designers upload a file to a folder so only the person who has the ftp details for that folder can get access to it..." so then the designers (DES) have the person's (USR1) login credentials (and all other users, obviously)?

But then you mention first user/second user and I'm wondering if you're referring to first user as DES and second as USR1, or is it DES + USR1 and USR2, or something else? I see nothing wrong in the first scenario as DES knows all logins, can upload and logout. USRs should have similar access to their own folder and find readable file there when uploaded by DES — are you saying that doesn't work (or doesn't apply)?

If it's the second (or another) scenario then where's the exclusivity of access if USR1 and USR2 can upload to each other?

So have I misunderstood your explanation?

[vivaciti]

Let me try to explain it a bit better.
I want the designers to open FTP with a "master account" so when they log in they can see all the different directories that are for other people, to save them having to log into different accounts individually.
So they have a file for a particular person, they upload it to that persons directory, so that person (user2) logs in under their own ftp account, and all they can see is the folder that holds the files that they have access to, the same that for "user3" only has access to a separate folder, so when they log in they can only see the folder and files that are for them to pick up.
Does that make more sense?

[247h]

My feeling is that you will be unable to do anything other than I suggested in scenario 1 because as far as I can ascertain, cPanel doesn't permit that type of hierarchy with FTP accounts.

But I am no expert — I suggest you email Support and ask them. It may be that as you have now explained your idea in more detail, someone from Tech Support will comment here.

Footnote: I've also been unable to find any discussion of the scenario you describe within the cPanel forums.