GuildFTPd Getting Started - User & Group Setup

Let's set up some users and groups.

Before we continue, let's think of some names to use for our users and groups. If you want anyone to be able to log into your server, you want to create a user named ANONYMOUS. That's our first user. Our second user will be JOE. Our third user will be ADMIN.

So, we're going to set up the following users....
ANONYMOUS
JOE
ADMIN

In order to keep them seperated and easy to manage later, we need to set up some groups for these users. Let's create a ANON group for ANONYMOUS, an UPLOAD group for JOE and an ADMIN group for ADMIN.

So, we're going to set up the following groups....
ANON
UPLOAD
ADMIN

Here we go....

STEPS		NOTES
Start GuildFTPD.
Click the + next to SYSTEM (in the left window) to see the default installed GROUP. Click the + next to TEMP to see the default USER, ANONYMOUS.	- SYSTEM - GROUP - USER	Skip this step if you can already see the GROUP and USER.
Click on the GROUP named TEMP and click the DELETE GROUP button in the toolbar.	- DELETE GROUP	Don't worry, we'll set up a new anonymous group and user later.
Click on SYSTEM so that it is selected. Click the ADD GROUP button in the toolbar.	- ADD GROUP
Name it ANON.
Click on the new ANON group so that it is selected. Click the ADD USER button in the toolbar.	- ADD USER
Name the user anonymous. Do not use CAPS and be sure to spell it correctly. Do not input a password and click OK.
Click the + next to the ANON group and verify that the user anonymous shows up.
Click on SYSTEM so that it is selected. Click the ADD GROUP button in the toolbar.	- ADD GROUP
Name it UPLOAD.
Click on the new UPLOAD group so that it is selected. Click the ADD USER button in the toolbar.	- ADD USER
Name the user upload. Do not use CAPS and be sure to spell it correctly. Set whatever password you prefer.		I'll set my password to upload, just as an example.
Click the + next to the UPLOAD group and verify that the user upload shows up.
Click on SYSTEM so that it is selected. Click the ADD GROUP button in the toolbar.	- ADD GROUP
Name it ADMIN.
Click on the new ADMIN group so that it is selected. Click the ADD USER button in the toolbar.	- ADD USER
Name the user admin. Do not use CAPS and be sure to spell it correctly. Set whatever password you prefer.		I'll set my password to supervisor, just as an example.
Click the + next to the ADMIN group and verify that the user admin shows up.

Now, we have some groups and users. Next, let's look at setting up some FTP server PATHS for our users.

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