diff --git a/scripts/lxc/lxc-install.sh b/scripts/lxc/lxc-install.sh
index 0b11db1bc..3485d0b56 100644
--- a/scripts/lxc/lxc-install.sh
+++ b/scripts/lxc/lxc-install.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-# Bash script to instal paperless in lxc containter
+# Bash script to install paperless in lxc containter
+
+# Add paperless user with no password
+adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" paperless
+# Add ftpupload
+adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" ftpupload
+echo "Set ftpupload password: "
+passwd ftpupload
+# Allow paperless group to access
+adduser paperless ftpupload
 
 # Get apt up to date
 apt-get update
@@ -10,8 +19,17 @@ apt-get -y install unpaper gnupg libpoppler-cpp-dev python3-pyocr tesseract-ocr
 
 # Needed for Apache
 apt-get -y install apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3
-# paperless user
-adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" paperless
+
+# Instll ftp server and make sure all files are owned by paperless
+apt-get install proftpd
+cat <<EOF >> /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
+<Directory /home/ftpupload/>
+  UserOwner   paperless
+  GroupOwner  paperless
+</Directory>
+EOF
+systemctl restart proftpd
+
 
 #Get Paperless from git (NB: currently fork)
 su -c "cd /home/paperless ; git clone https://github.com/bmsleight/paperless" paperless
@@ -24,8 +42,8 @@ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
 #Set up consume directory
 su -c "mkdir /home/paperless/consume" paperless
 
-# Take paperless.conf.example and set consumuption dir
-sed  -e '/PAPERLESS_CONSUMPTION_DIR=/s/=.*/=\"\/home\/paperless\/consume\/\"/' \
+# Take paperless.conf.example and set consumuption dir (ftp dir)
+sed  -e '/PAPERLESS_CONSUMPTION_DIR=/s/=.*/=\"\/home\/ftpupload\/\"/' \
      /home/paperless/paperless/paperless.conf.example  >/etc/paperless.conf
 
 # Update /etc/paperless.conf with PAPERLESS_SECRET_KEY
@@ -44,3 +62,14 @@ cp /home/paperless/paperless/scripts/lxc/paperless.conf /etc/apache2/sites-avail
 a2dissite 000-default.conf
 a2ensite paperless.conf
 systemctl reload apache2
+
+sed -e "s/home\/paperless\/project\/virtualenv\/bin\/python/usr\/bin\/python3/" \
+     /home/paperless/paperless/scripts/paperless-consumer.service \
+     >/etc/systemd/system/paperless-consumer.service
+
+sed  -i "s/\/home\/paperless\/project\/src\/manage.py/\/home\/paperless\/paperless\/src\/manage.py/" \
+      /etc/systemd/system/paperless-consumer.service
+
+
+systemctl enable paperless-consumer
+systemctl start paperless-consumer