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Allowing SFTP access in Plesk 9

This is an easy one.

Go to Plesk > {your domain} > Web Hosting Settings

Set 'Shell access to server with' FTP user's credentials to

bin/bash

This is a potential security risk, so you might not want to enable it for reseller domains.

[update 20110217-13:57]
To clarify, obviously using SFTP *increases* security when transferring files - the security risk I refer to is that enabling it will give that user shell access with the FTP details, which could be a security risk, so you might not want to enable it for users accounts which other people have the details of.
[/update]

Posted May 27, 2010
Feb 17, 2011
Dave Disaster said...
I'm running Joomla on the Plesk server myself.