Note: This how-to guide was provided by a client, and has not been tested by us.
Assumptions: - You currently have user named username with domain domain.com - You will create a new user named newuser to share domain.com - newuser won't have any of his own domains other than domain.com
Steps:
1. Create a new user named newuser with a dummy domain from the reseller level. 2. Log on to the server as root. 3. execute (Redhat):
/usr/sbin/usermod -d /home/username -g username newuser
4.
chmod 771 /home/username chown -R newuser:newuser /home/username/domains chmod -R 775 /home/username/domains chown -R newuser:newuser /home/username/mail mv /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/username/domains /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/username/domains-old ln -s /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/username/domains /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/newuser/domains echo "domain.com" > /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/newuser/domains.list
5. Edit /etc/proftpd.passwd and update the login path for newuser