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Anonymous-FTP

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1. What is anonymous FTP?

Anonymous FTP is the ability to upload and/or download files without having a login username and password. Obviously, for security reasons, we only allow anonymous FTP to specific directories.

After anonymous FTP is setup, it will create a directory called domainname-anonftp in your home directory. This directory will by default contain the following directories:

/pub
/incoming

The "pub" directory is where the client should put files that they want to have users anonymously download. Users can access this directory via a browser by going to:

ftp://domainname.com/pub

Note, we do not allow clients the ability to allow users to both upload and download to the same directory. We do this for security reasons. The client is responsible for moving files from the incoming directory to the pub directory if they wish for uploaded files also to be downloaded.

The incoming directory would be:

ftp://domainname.com/incoming

This directory is writable from the web but NOT readable. No one coming in from the web (or from an FTP program logging in as "anonymous") can see what files are stored here.


Updated: January 4, 2001

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