File Layouts of Authenticated and Anonymous FTP
Unless you’ve enabled anonymous FTP logins, the file layout of the FTP server is very simple. The FTP server file layout is 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 systemwide resource files used by other services. Individual users’ home directories are considered part of the FTP server layout because each authenticated user connects directly into his 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 you’ll see in the later section of this chapter, “Allowing Anonymous ...
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