Set up Users and Groups in the
GUI
Aspera clients connect to HST Server by authenticating as a system user who is configured
in the application. The user can also belong to a group that is
configured in the application. Users and groups can be set
up in the HST Server
GUI.
Setting Up Users The HST Server uses system accounts to authenticate connections from Aspera clients. The system users must be added and configured as Aspera transfer users before clients can browse the server file system or run FASP transfers to and from the server. When creating transfer users, you can also specify user-specific settings, such as transfer bandwidth, docroot, and file handling. User configuration is an important part of securing your server. For a complete description, see Configuring Shares Security . Setting Up Groups Transfer settings can be applied to your system's user groups. If users within a group do not have individual transfer settings, then the group's transfer settings are applied. APOD HST Server doesn't create user groups on the operating system for you, so you must ensure that the groups exist before adding them to your Aspera product. Configuration Precedence HST Server APOD applies configuration settings in this order: 1) user settings, 2) group settings (and if a user belongs to more than one group, precedence can be set for each group), 3) global settings, 4) default settings. User settings have the highest priority and default the lowest.Setting Up a User's Public Key on the Server Testing a User-Initiated Remote Transfer HST Server , test that an Aspera client can successfully connect to your HST Server and upload a file.