Hi I am running a SLES 10 server with Plesk.

When my colleagues here need to edit content on a website it locks out the Plesk FTP user who seems to need to be the owner of all files to be able to write/delete.

So first question is - is it normal with FTP under Linux that the FTP user HAS to be the owner of everything in the directory you want to access? I have tried making it a member of a group that has full access but it came up permission denied when I tried to write - is this just how linux works for ftp or might there be a sneaky way round it?

Secondly,
If there is no way around this I still need to find a way for our web designers and ftp users to play nicely together so I thought I could create a file (.sh I guess) to change the owner of a web directory back to the FTP user once the web design team had made their modifications.

My question is, is there anyway of creating a file that you can just double click on that will then run some code like a .sh file, rather than have to run it from the terminal?