How to change FTP home directory in Centos 6

I have created one Linux CentOS 6 instance in Amazon EC2 and installed cPanel on it and started running my websites there. The issue I face was when I try to FTP to the instance with the following config IP : Instance IP Username : centos Password : Blank Mode : SFTP SFTP Key : Private KEY (PEM) Provided by Amazon EC2 dashboard I got to view only > /home/centos directory But I want to view the main directory which is back to home directory When I tried to click > .. in FileZilla it says > "Permission Denied" So I tried the following > vipw /etc/passwd and changed > centos:x:1000:1000:Cloud User:/home/centos:/bin/bash to > centos:x:1000:1000:Cloud User:/ :/bin/bash and even to > centos:x:1000:1000:Cloud User: :/bin/bash However , after this change FTP stopped logging in Finally, I reverted back to > centos:x:1000:1000:Cloud User:/home/centos:/bin/bash Kindly guide me to achieve this.