Best practice to create an ftp administrator account on vsftpd

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Published on 2010-05-13T13:24:02Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 13:25 UTC
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Background: My manager would like me to create an administration account for out FTP server. When logged in via ftp, it should instantly display all of the home directories of the users, and be able to modify any directory or file in any way possible.

What would be the best way to go about this? I planned on chrooting this ftp admin to /home, but I don't know how to properly go about the permissions. Maybe make a group called ftp_admins, and chgrp the /home folder? But then wouldn't it affect the users accessing their folders?

any help is appreciated.

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