# Show FTP user of a web hosting package

> One FTP user of a web hosting package, with how to connect.

- Effect: Read - Changes nothing.
- Idempotent: yes
- Stability: beta
- MCP tool: `manitu_webhosting_web_ftpuser_get` on https://mcp.manitu.de/mcp
- REST: `POST https://api.manitu.de/v1/webhosting/web/ftpuser/get`
- Needs: `service_webhosting`
- Page: /reference/webhosting/web/ftpuser/get/

## MCP tool

`manitu_webhosting_web_ftpuser_get`

### Description for the model

Returns one FTP user of a web hosting package of the manitu customer account this connection works in, by site_id and username from manitu_webhosting_web_ftpuser_list: status, whether it can log in now, when it expires, its directory, disk space limit, whether its password should be renewed - and connection: host, user name and the protocols with their ports (SFTP on port 23, not 22; FTPS explicit on 21; plain FTP only if nothing else works) - what the customer enters in his FTP program. The password is never shown: it is what the customer chose.

### Arguments

- `site_id` (integer | string, required) - The site_id from manitu_webhosting_list - never guess one. (pattern `"^[1-9][0-9]*$"`; minimum `1`)
- `username` (string, required) - The user name of the FTP user (ftp<number>) from manitu_webhosting_web_ftpuser_list - never guess one. (maxLength `32`; pattern `"^ftp[0-9]+$"`)

### Example

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "manitu_webhosting_web_ftpuser_get",
    "arguments": {
      "site_id": 12345,
      "username": "string"
    }
  }
}
```

## REST

`POST https://api.manitu.de/v1/webhosting/web/ftpuser/get`

### Authentication

One of `X-API-Key`, `Authorization: Bearer …` - never more than one in a request.

### Request body

JSON; unknown fields are refused.

- `site_id` (integer | string, required) - The site_id from manitu_webhosting_list - never guess one. (pattern `"^[1-9][0-9]*$"`; minimum `1`)
- `username` (string, required) - The user name of the FTP user (ftp<number>) from manitu_webhosting_web_ftpuser_list - never guess one. (maxLength `32`; pattern `"^ftp[0-9]+$"`)

### Response

In `data`; the rest of the body as on every call.

- `username` (string, required) - The user name to log in with (ftp<number>) - what the other FTP user tools take.
- `description` (string | null, required) - What the customer wrote about it (his description), null if nothing - not its name or user name.
- `status` (string, required) - active, or inactive (switched off by the customer, kept for later). (one of `"active"`, `"inactive"`)
- `is_usable_now` (boolean, required) - It can log in right now: active and not expired.
- `expires_at` (string | null, required) - When the FTP user expires. From this moment on it can no longer be used (the moment itself is excluded); null: without end. (format `date-time`)
- `home_dir` (string | null, required) - The directory it starts in and cannot leave, relative to the package (/ = the whole package).
- `quota_mb` (integer | null, required) - Disk space in MB the files it owns may take; null: no limit of its own (the package's applies).
- `password_change_recommended` (boolean, required) - The password is kept in an outdated form - the customer should set a new one.
- `created_at` (string | null, required) - When it was created. (format `date-time`)
- `last_login_at` (string | null, required) - Its last login, null if never. (format `date-time`)
- `connection` (object, required)
  - `connection.host` (string | null, required) - The host to connect to - the web server of the package.
  - `connection.username` (string, required) - The user name to log in with.
  - `connection.method_list` (array of object, required) - The ways to connect, the one to prefer first. SFTP is on port 23, NOT 22; implicit FTPS is not offered; plain FTP (unencrypted) only if nothing else works.
    - `connection.method_list[].protocol` (string, required) - sftp (SSH file transfer), ftps_explicit (FTP with explicit TLS, AUTH TLS), ftp (unencrypted). (one of `"sftp"`, `"ftps_explicit"`, `"ftp"`)
    - `connection.method_list[].port` (integer, required)
    - `connection.method_list[].is_encrypted` (boolean, required)
    - `connection.method_list[].is_recommended` (boolean, required)
  - `connection.web_ftp_url` (string, required) - FTP in the browser, with the same user name and password.

### Statuses

- `200` Success.
- `400` The request does not match the declared input schema.
- `401` No credential was presented, or it was not recognised.
- `403` The credential is not permitted to use this operation.
- `500` The server failed. Nothing about the request was wrong. Whether a change took effect is not known - check before trying it again.
- `503` The channel this operation forwards through is unavailable.

### Example

```sh
curl -X POST 'https://api.manitu.de/v1/webhosting/web/ftpuser/get' \
  -H 'X-API-Key: $API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"site_id":12345,"username":"string"}'
```

## Example result

```json
{
  "username": "string",
  "description": "Example",
  "status": "active",
  "is_usable_now": true,
  "expires_at": "2026-10-23T12:00:00+02:00",
  "home_dir": "/web",
  "quota_mb": 1,
  "password_change_recommended": true,
  "created_at": "2026-10-23T12:00:00+02:00",
  "last_login_at": "2026-10-23T12:00:00+02:00",
  "connection": {
    "host": "string",
    "username": "string",
    "method_list": [
      {
        "protocol": "sftp",
        "port": 1,
        "is_encrypted": true,
        "is_recommended": true
      }
    ],
    "web_ftp_url": "https://www.example.com/"
  }
}
```