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Overview of the FTP Directory Structure

Unless you've enabled anonymous FTP logins, which we will discuss how to set up a little later, the file layout of the FTP server is very simple and integrated with the system in the same way that most other core services are. There are several configuration files in /etc, some of which do double duty as system-wide resource files used by other services. Individual users' home directories are considered part of the FTP server layout, since each authenticated user connects directly into his or her home directory.

If you've enabled anonymous FTP, there's a server root area just as in Apache; this is created at the time when you elect to enable anonymous FTP, as we will see. The default location for the FTP ...