A topic which has been controversially discussed in the concrete5 community: Some users would like to be able to access and modify all the files on their web space where the concrete5 site is located within the dashboard.

It can be handy to quickly fix an issue with your add-on from your new tablet device while you're on vacation—it could also cause trouble with your partner though. You don't have to remember an FTP account, getting access to the dashboard is enough to do all work on your website, updating content, fixing bugs in the add-ons, and so on.

Certainly, this is something which can be handy, but also a bit dangerous. Changing code on a site which is running on a productive server should be well-thought-out. Being able to make modifications very easily can also break things very quickly. Being able to modify all files within a web application also means that the user account you're using to run the web server must have write access to all the...