: CPanel - How to change FTP home directory in Centos 6 I have created one Linux centOS 6 instance in Amazon EC2 and installed cPanel on it and started running my websites there. The issue

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I have created one Linux centOS 6 instance in Amazon EC2 and installed cPanel on it and started running my websites there. The issue I face is when I try to FTP to the instance with following config


IP : Instance IP
Username : centos
Password : Blank
Mode : SFTP
SFTP Key : Private KEY (PEM) Provided by Amazon EC2 dashboard


I got to view only the /home/centos directory. But I want to view the main directory which is back to the /home directory. When I tried to click .. in FileZilla it says:


Permission Denied


So, i tried the following

vipw /etc/passwd


and changed

centos:x:1000:1000:Cloud User:/home/centos:/bin/bash


to

centos:x:1000:1000:Cloud User:/ :/bin/bash


and even to

centos:x:1000:1000:Cloud User: :/bin/bash


However, after this change FTP stopped logging in.

So I reverted back to:

centos:x:1000:1000:Cloud User:/home/centos:/bin/bash


Kindly guide me to achieve this.

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