Specifications

FTP Root and Share Points
The “FTP Root and Share Points” environment option gives access to the FTP root and
any FTP share points that users have access privileges to, as shown in the following
illustration.
etc
system
Library
Data
Volumes
FTP server
FTP root
FTP Root
Looks like “/ ”
to anonymous
FTP users
Looks like “/ ”
when accessing
as user “Bob”
Looks like “/ ”
when accessing
as user “Betty”
FTP share point
incorporated
within virtual root
Data
Betty
Bob
Users
Photos
Photos
Symbolic link
bin
FTP Root
Users access FTP share points through symbolic links attached to the FTP root folder.
The symbolic links are created when you create FTP share points.
In this example, /Users, /Volumes/Data/, and /Volumes/Photos/ are FTP share points.
All users can see the home folders of other users because they are subfolders of the
Users share point.
Important: Regardless of the user environment setting, anonymous users and
users without home folders are always logged in to the FTP Root and Share Points
environment.
Home Folder with Share Points
When the user environment option is set to “Home Folder with Share Points,”
authenticated users log in to their home folders and have access to the FTP root by
a symbolic link created in their home folders.
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