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5.

Enter Yes or No to Allow FTP Access for this user. If you want this

user to have FTP access to the virtual server (assuming that you have

the FTP service with your account), answer Yes; otherwise, answer No.

If you plan to add the FTP service to this account later, enter Yes now.

6.

Select option 1, 2, or 3 of the Home Directory option. This option

determines where this user's "home directory" is placed. Select from

the following three options:

Select option 1 if this user has no special use requirements. This

user's home directory would be something like /usr/home/biff.

Select option 2 if this user needs to upload their own web pages.

This user's URL would be something like

http://www.yourdomain.com/biff

Select option 3 if this user needs to upload files to your anonymous

FTP archive (ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com/biff). This user's URL would

be something like /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/biff

7.

Enter the FTP upload quota on this account in megabytes, or you can

enter 0 to give this account no quota. 10 megabytes is the default

upload quota.

User home directory options

You have several options for setting the user home directory. Each of these

options allow you to control how the user accesses the virtual server.

The first option allows you to create the home directory under your

/usr/home

 directory. This option is best for users who have no special

use requirements. If the directory were called test, it would be created at

/usr/home/test

. This would be an ideal place for you to create an FTP

directory for users to upload information to your server that your system

administrator would verify and place in the proper directory structure.

The second option allows you to create the home directory under your

/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs

 directory. If the directory were

called test, it would be created at

/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/test

. This option is best for

users who upload their own web pages. The users would have FTP access to

the test directory, and sub directories they created. However, the users

could not access anything above the test directory. The user's home pages

would be located at http://www.yourdomain.com/test.

The third option allows the user to upload files to your anonymous FTP

archive. The directory created for the user test would be /ftp/pub/test. Files

in this directory could only be added and deleted by the user test, but

anyone would have access to download these files.

The FTP upload quota allows you to limit how much of your virtual server s

disk space one of your users may use. If the user attempts to upload more

data than their remaining quota allows, they receive a FTP error message.

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