Messages

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# 3.7. Messages

The Messages Panel

This panel allows you to specify messages to be shown to the logged-in user.

Select a file for the banner to be displayed on connection (before login). Some extremely old FTP clients may be confused by a banner.

The hostname can be specified. This will be reported to the user upon login, and can also be inserted in other messages (as %L). If no hostname is given, the real hostname will be used.

Similarly, an administrator email address can be defined for insertion in messages (as %E).

Check the boxes to cause messages and `README`s to be shown to the user every time the triggering event (explained below) occurs; otherwise they will only be shown the first time.

Hit the Add Message button to indicate text to be displayed to the user. You will be prompted for the location of the text file, whether it will be displayed on login or on change to a specified directory and whether it will be displayed for all user classes or particular ones.

Similarly, the user can be notified of `README` files upon login or change to a directory.

In the screenshot, the text in `/home/ftp/welcome.txt` will be displayed on connection. The hostname camelot and the admin address `<jsinger@leeta.net>` will be inserted in messages but no messages or `README`s have been defined yet.

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