Apple Mac OS X Server (version 10.2.3 or later) - Manual (Page 258)

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FTP Root and Share Points
The “FTP Root and Share Points” user environment gives access—for both real and
anonymous users—to the FTP root and any FTP share points to which the users have access
privileges, as shown in the following figure.
Users access FTP share points through symbolic links attached to the FTP Root directory.
The symbolic links are created automatically when you create the FTP share points.
Note that in this example, /Users, /Volumes/Data, and /Volumes/Photos are FTP share points.
All users can see the home directories of other users because they are subdirectories of the
Users share point.
bin etc system Library
Data
Volumes
FTP
server
FTP root
Looks like "/ "
FTP share point
incorporated
within virtual root
Data Betty Bob
Users
Photos
Photos
Share point
Symbolic link
Users
Important Regardless of the user environment setting, anonymous users and users without
home directories are always logged into the “FTP Root and Share Points” environment.
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