Anonymous FTP allows guests to access your machine in a limited manner, to either upload or download files. You can put FTP links on web pages that connect the users directly to your anonymous site; it's a convenient way of giving them easy downloads.
Read on for step-by-step directions on how to set this up on your machine. Before proceeding with this one, you should be comfortable at the command line, and probably have at least some knowledge of users, groups, and permissions in UNIX.
1) All of step one is done using Terminal, which is located in /Applications/Utilities.
Note - replace all references to "user" with your username or root (it's more convenient with your username because you can easily drop things into /Users/ftp/pub).
a) First create a directory in /Users that looks like this:
drwxr-xr-x 9 user ftp 262 Nov 1 15:32 ftpb) Then in /Users/ftp create the following directories:
binc) Copy the following files to their respective corresponding directories in the ftp directory:
usr/lib
System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/B
pub
incoming
/bin/lsd) In /Users/ftp make sure the file permissions look like this:
/usr/lib/dyld
/System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/B/System
total 0Note: if you don't know how to change permissions, read the man (man command-name) pages for:
dr-xr-xr-x 3 user ftp 58 Oct 4 15:29 System
dr-xr-xr-x 3 user ftp 58 Oct 4 15:30 bin
drwx-wx-wx 10 user ftp 296 Oct 30 02:06 incoming
drwxr-xr-x 6 user ftp 160 Nov 1 01:01 pub
dr-xr-xr-x 3 user ftp 58 Oct 4 15:29 usr
./System:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 user ftp 58 Oct 4 15:29 Library
./System/Library:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 user ftp 58 Oct 4 15:29 Frameworks
./System/Library/Frameworks:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 user ftp 58 Oct 4 15:29 System.framework
./System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 user ftp 58 Oct 4 15:29 Versions
./System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 user ftp 58 Oct 4 15:30 B
./System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/B:
total 2408
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root ftp 1231624 Oct 4 15:30 System
./bin:
total 56
-r-xr-xr-x 1 user ftp 26920 Oct 4 15:30 ls
./usr:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 user ftp 58 Oct 4 15:30 lib
./usr/lib:
total 616
-r-xr-xr-x 1 user ftp 312384 Oct 4 15:30 dyld
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