A while back, I had done this to restrict to a particular directory , 
but it may not be ideal for you as you already have some parent 
directories, but you can give a try :

http://www.amitnepal.com/chrooting-users-with-sftp/

Or ,  you may be able to mount that directory somewhere else and give 
access like this :
http://www.amitnepal.com/ftp-access-to-files-outside-base-directory/

Just look at this part :

|mkdir /home/username/extraaccess|

|mount --bind /folder/to/grant/access/ /home/username/extraaccess|


Thanks
*Amit K Nepal
Chief Information Officer
(RHCE, CCENT, C|EH, C|HFI, GIAC ISO 27000 Specialist)
omNovia Technologies Inc. *
On 4/30/2014 3:54 PM, keith smith wrote:
>
> Hi I'm using CentOS 6.5 and we use the users home dir + "public_html" 
> as the docroot for our websites like this:
>
> /home/user_name/public_html
>
> We are using SSH for SFTP.  Each host has only one SFTP user.
>
> What I need to do is add a directory, lets call it uploads like this:
>
> /home/user_name/public_html/uploads
>
> Any content in uploads must be accessible to Apache so it can be 
> displayed.
>
> And I would like to add a user that can only access
> /home/user_name/public_html/uploads and would be able to 
> add/edit/remove any files in just the uploads directory.
>
> I thought of a link, however that did not work.  I created a user 
> uploads which created a home dir /home/uploads and I tried to link 
> that to /home/user_name/public_html/ which created
> /home/user_name/public_html/uploads . This did not work.
>
> I hope this makes sense.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance!!
>
> Keith
>
>
>
>
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