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User's Permissions

Selecting the Permissions tab of the User dialog presents a list of defined Folder permissions:

Users Tab - User's Permissions

Use the Delete button to delete the selected permission.

Use the Add or Edit buttons to create or modify a permission. The Path Permissions dialog is displayed:

NOTE - Settings here will override any Group settings for a Group that this user is a member of.

Field

Description

Relative path

Specify the path to the folder you wish to assign User Permissions to.

This is a relative path from the Home directory of the FTP site, and must contain a trailing slash character.

Use just a slash, '/', to specify the Home directory.

If you want to define default permissions for any directories not explicitly specified enter a single asterisk, '*'.

Inherit

Check this option to have the permissions inherited from the parent directory.

Read Permissions

 

Get

Allow the User to download files.

Access directory

Allow the User to browse to this directory with his FTP client.

List

Allow the User to list the directory contents.

NOTE - the difference between Access Directory and List is subtle. If Access Directory is enabled then the User's client can browse to that directory, but. if List is not enabled, the directory will appear to be empty.

Write Permissions

 

Put

Allow the User to upload files to this directory.

Rename

Allow the User to Rename this directory.

Append

Allow the User's client to use the Append command in this directory.

Make directory

Allow the User to create subfolders in this directory.

Delete Permissions

 

Delete

Allow the User to delete files from this directory.

Remove directory

Allow the user to delete this directory.

Size

 

Maximum directory size

Specify here a maximum size for this folder, in MegaBytes.

See Also

Users

User - User

User - Options