Hi,

I have a resellers account on a Cpanel server. I would like to move a directory on one of my accounts into another one of my accounts. For example I think the directory structure is something along these lines..

home/myresellersaccount/myaccount1/directorytobemoved
home/myresellersaccount/myaccount2/

Can I SSH into my resellers account domain and have powers to move this directory? From what I see my SSH access seems to start at the myaccount1 folder.

It depends on how the permissions on the /home directory are set. A security conscious host will set it to chmod 711.. so if you log as account1 you can only access /home/account1 and you cant move it /home/account2

One way is to tarball the directory and ftp it to your local PC and then FTP it into /home/account2 and then untarring it

Hope this helps

You cannot SSH the directory from one account into another. You need some middle place to keep the directory while you switch the accounts. So, you can download the folder on your local pc from first account and then connect to second account and upload it from your local pc. Thanks

try this:
cd home/myresellersaccount/myaccount1
tar -zcvf filename.tar.gz directorytobemoved
mv filename.tar.gz home/myresellersaccount/myaccount2/
tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz
that should do it:stickout

Originally posted by jahsh
try this:
cd home/myresellersaccount/myaccount1
tar -zcvf filename.tar.gz directorytobemoved
mv filename.tar.gz home/myresellersaccount/myaccount2/
tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz
that should do it:stickout

One note to add, try tar -xvpzf instead of just tar -zxvf. This preserves all file permissions so you don't have to go back and chmod all your scripts again.

Or, just ask your webhost provider to do it for you. This should be really easy for them to handle.

From your login at home/myresellersaccount/myaccount1/:

tar --ignore-zeros -cz directorytobemoved | ssh -l username 2nd.account tar -xz

Well, I navigated through SSH into what I think is the home directory where I saw the list of all the users on the server. I went to the one I wanted to move to and CD'ed but I was denied access which I completly understand as that could be someone elses account for example. I think it would be a good cpanel feature if resellers had ssh access with permission to access all their accounts.

The files are about 150mb so i'll ask my webhost to move them most likley.
Thanks

If you have SSH access for both accounts, the way I posted should work.

Thanks bitserve, I get "Name or service cannot be found"

Sorry, logged into account one, from inside the home/myresellersaccount/myaccount1/ directory:

tar --ignore-zeros -cz directorytobemoved | ssh -l username 2nd.account tar -xz

Where "directorytobemoved" is the name of a directory, "username" is the username for the second account, and "2nd.account" is the IP address or name that you specify when connecting to your second account. Since they're both on the same server, you may be able to use "localhost" in place of an IP address or name. Also, you may need to specify a path to the "tar" or "ssh" command.

which ssh
which tar

If one of these commands isn't in your path, you'll need to locate the command with locate perhaps:

locate ssh
locate tar

So that you might actually have to type:

/bin/tar --ignore-zeros -cz directorytobemoved | /usr/local/bin/ssh -l username 2nd.account /bin/tar -xz

or some such.

Wht bother with tar??

cp -Rfup /this/directory /to/here/

Simple really....you keep all the same permissions and ownerships as well. Then you get anything else worked out that you need to do, and go back and delete the first one.

Thanks for the continuing help

I get

bash-2.05$ tar -- ignore zeros -cz photos | ssh -1 2ndusername 66.xxx.86.x tar -xz tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
ssh: 2ndusername: Name or service not known

tar the dir. login to the other account and use wget to move it. login to the old account and delete it.

Originally posted by Webdude
Wht bother with tar??

cp -Rfup /this/directory /to/here/

Simple really....you keep all the same permissions and ownerships as well. Then you get anything else worked out that you need to do, and go back and delete the first one.

Terry doesn't have access to copy to the destination directory.

Originally posted by The Laughing Cow
Thanks for the continuing help

I get

bash-2.05$ tar -- ignore zeros -cz photos | ssh -1 2ndusername 66.xxx.86.x tar -xz tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
ssh: 2ndusername: Name or service not known

You're not typing it correctly:

You're typing:

tar -- ignore zeros -cz photos | ssh -1 2ndusername 66.xxx.86.x tar -xz

You should be typing:

tar --ignore-zeros -cz photos | ssh -l 2ndusername 66.xxx.86.x tar -xz

Ah ok...I guess I missed that..