Could have been implemented years ago...

Please add this feature. Due to the increasing frequency of security audits, we need the ability to create new SFTP users with permissions set to read-only for the account.

I am looking for this feature for IoT applications, not all devices can support FTPS so SFTP is the choice.
Thank you very much

The summary of FTP issue and workaround fix:
In Plesk it is possible to have only one user that could access domain via SFTP & can not have different home directory than the web home directory

so the solution until they implement it as i write before:
1) create additional FTP account from GUI admin panel.

2) run the commands below from SSH:
usermod -s /bin/bash <username>
mkdir /home/<username>
chown versand /home/<username>

3)also remember to delete home directory /home/<username> after you delete additional FTP user

hope that help someone

Clients that are connecting using a phone hotspot cannot access FTPS. Advice is that SFTP is compatible with hotspots

How about mod_sftp support in proftpd? http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sftp.html

Soon this suggestion will celebrate its 10 years anniversary!

When can we expect it to be implemented, after you accepted this to be a valid request 5 years ago (sic!) ???

There is a need to have more than one user for sftp account.

I add my voice to this feature request!

Bitte SFTP für alle User und freier Wahl des Verzeichnisses zur Verfügung stellen!
Ist doch eigentlich Stand der Technik / Sicherheit...

Danke Mark

Some external application require a SFTP account and don't work with FTP or FTP/TLS.
But no one would like to use the domain master login for this. Therefore SFTP accxounts with directoiry restriction would be important.

Wow, I can't believe that this feature is still not available after all this time!
Please do more than "look into it" as this is just a practical and secure no-brainer.

Just get it done!

We definitely need to be able to create via Plesk subdirectory FTP users that access their respective folders using SFTP. It is a significant flaw in Plesk that we cannot do this now. Please treat this as an urgent security matter for your users and fix it right away.

The August 13 2022 comment by Alex shows that the "workaround" creates a significant security flaw, so that so-called "workaround" is unacceptable.

Tried your workaround https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/213912005-SFTP-is-not-available-for-additional-FTP-users and it worked. I am now able to login as additional dev_user by SFTP, BUT he is able to navigate throughout my whole server directory and not only the one that I specified in Domains > FTP Access > dev_user, so the solution doesn;t really work for my needs (which are to give one of our contractor access only to one specific directory and not the others). PLEASE implement this feature as it would be very useful! Thanks guys.

We have created a solution where customers can create FTP accounts and then be able to use SFTP on port 2022 (rather than port 22). We currently use this on CloudLinux 7
I will check with our developers whether we can release this as a Plesk extension.

In my case not only me as admin want SFTP for all users/connections, also clients want this. This security is important. Please, Plesk, do something.

A really important feature.
We need this!

It took you almost five years to say you'd "look into it" after David first asked for the ability to create SFTP users, and now almost four years later still no joy... How many votes do you need to add this vital feature?

I voted for it in June 2018 when there were 76 supporters - the number has quadrupled in the last (almost) four years. When will this important feature finally be implemented? More and more service providers are rightly insisting on SFTP for secure data exchange.

This feature suggestion is 8 years old now. Please do something!