Creating the FTP home directory

Access Appliance can act as an FTP server for LDAP, NIS, or AD users, or local users.

When a user logs into the FTP server for the first time, Access Appliance retrieves the user's home directory information from the authentication server. The authentication server can be an LDAP, NIS, or AD server.

If the create_homedirs option is set to yes, Access Appliance creates a user's home directory on the FTP server with the same name that was retrieved from the authentication server. This directory is used internally. If the create_homedirs option is set to no, the Access Appliance administrator must manually create a directory that matches the home directory on the authentication server.

Regardless of the setting of the create_homedirs option, the Access Appliance administrator must manually create the user's directory where the user logs in. This directory is in the location specified by the homedir_path option. The directory must have execute permissions set.