Anonymous FTP access allows you to make files on your Freedom server available for public download without requiring visiting users to provide a password. Anonymous FTP is the ideal way to distribute public files to those that visit your site.
To make a file available through anonymous FTP, it must be placed in the /var/ftp directory. It is common practice to place these files in a subdirectory of /var/ftp called pub, reflecting that the files are available to the public for downloading, but any files placed in the /var/ftp directory will be treated as public files.
Files made available through anonymous FTP must also be given the correct file permissions to allow the world to read them. If a file does not have the correct permissions, it can be given the correct permissions with the chmod or vchmod commands. For example, suppose you had a file called "myfile.zip" and you wanted to make it available to the public through anonymous FTP. First, you would need to upload it to the /var/ftp/pub directory through user-authenticated FTP, and then you would need to ensure that it had the correct permissions. The correct permissions for this file, assuming that you wanted members of the "ftpadmin" special user group to be able to maintain the file, would look something like this:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 msmith ftpadmin 4500828 Jan 23 2001 myfile.zip
To download the file in this example through anonymous FTP, visitors would need only to point their FTP client or Web browser to a URL like the one below:
ftp://your_domain/pub/myfile.zip