Dedicated Servers : Hosting a server, not in root, how to add user in linux?

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This dedicated server discussion started by davidonpda on 26 December 2007

I’m sorry, put this where it needs to go, I’ve added a user in plesk, he has his own domain name.

How do I give him shell access to var/www/vhosts/hisdomain.com so he can get into hlds and run an instance of that? I’ve set it up for him from root, but obviously I don’t want to give that to him, I tried to login with his plesk username, but it kicks me right out.

Is there some fancy way to do this? and to mods, I apologize, if this should go in the linux forum, take me there, I have no idea.

I have created a user with useradd username123 and made his password with passwd, and that gave him root access.

so far linux has shown limitless possibilities, i know it can do this!

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