Permission groups overview

Permission Groups are different from User Setting levels and Users. Permission groups control user access to folders. User Setting levels control access to server resources like bandwidth.

Cute FTP Server automatically creates three default permission groups for every site you create:

Administrative

All Users

Guests

You may want to configure more permission groups of your own or modify the settings for the default groups. Carefully consider your security and access needs, configure permission groups according to those needs, then add users to your groups.

 

To view permission groups  

  1. Start the Administrator Interface and connect to the Server.

  2. At the bottom of the left pane, click the Server tab.

  3. Expand a Server Group, Server, Site and Groups.

 

To add users to a permission group

  1. Start the Administrator Interface and connect to the Server.

  2. At the bottom of the left pane, click the Server tab.

  3. Expand a Server Group, Server, Site and Groups.

  4. Select a permission Group.

  5. In the right panel, click a User in the Not a member of window and click the left arrow. Users can be members of more than one Group at a time.

Note

If a User is a member of more than one Group and you have not modified that User’s permissions, that User will have the highest level of access allowed to any folder or folder action. As the administrator, you can individually modify User permissions. The modified permissions outweigh all Group permissions. For instance, a User is a member of three Groups that all have upload permissions to a particular folder, but you have denied that specific User permission to upload to the folder, then the User will be unable to upload to the folder.

 

Related Topics

Creating Groups

Deleting Groups

Adding Users to a Group

Creating Users

Permission check boxes

Remove users from a group