{"id":17878,"date":"2026-04-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/?post_type=docs&p=17878"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:00:00","password":"","slug":"create-additional-ftp-users-es","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wiki\/create-additional-ftp-users-es\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Additional FTP Users on Your Seedbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why Multiple FTP Users?<\/h2>\n<p>Additional FTP users let you give specific people access to specific folders on your seedbox \u2014 without sharing your main credentials. Useful for sharing files with friends or separating access for different purposes.<\/p>\n<h2>Creating Additional Users via SSH<\/h2>\n<pre><code># Create a new system usernsudo adduser newusernamenn# Set the user's home directory to a specific foldernsudo usermod -d \/home\/mainuser\/shared newusernamenn# The new user can now connect via SFTP:n# sftp newusername@seedbox-ip<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2>Restricting Access<\/h2>\n<p>To limit the new user to only their folder (chroot jail), edit the SSH config:<\/p>\n<pre><code>sudo nano \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_confignn# Add at the bottom:nMatch User newusernamen  ChrootDirectory \/home\/mainuser\/sharedn  ForceCommand internal-sftpn  AllowTcpForwarding no<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Restart SSH: <code>sudo systemctl restart sshd<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Multiple FTP Users? Additional FTP users let you give specific people access to specific folders on your seedbox \u2014 without sharing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-17878","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":116,"total_views":"4","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"Tim Michels","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=17878"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=17878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}