anonymous FTP
- noun
- /əˈnɒnɪməs ˈɛf ti pi/
- Specialized
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FTP anónimo
- It is most likely that the FOI Officer at the university put it on an anonymous FTP server or that it resided on a shared folder that many people had access to, and some curious individual looked at it.
Examples
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Mosaic and Netscape are both available for downloading via anonymous FTP (see the Reference list for details).
Academic text (1995) -
Internet users can access this archive by anonymous FTP to SEDS.
Academic text (1994) -
He allegedly then continued with a link to a Russian anonymous FTP account.
Blog text (19) -
Then he uploads them to a variety of anonymous FTP servers and prepares "dead man" switches that will distribute the information at his command or upon failure to countermand his instructions by preset dates.
Blog text (19) -
In that same position might be gopher, FTP, telnet, news, or mail, depending on whether a connection to a gopher server, an anonymous FTP site, or a telnet or news server is desired.
Academic text (1995) -
Many software packages can be downloaded from public sites using anonymous FTP without needing an account.
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You can easily retrieve documents from an anonymous FTP server by logging in as 'guest'.
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Students can access the course materials by connecting to the anonymous FTP server set up by the university.
Synonyms
A way to share files over a network that lets people download without a password
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a way of accessing files on an FTP server without a personalized login' follows directly from combining 'anonymous' (identity not disclosed) with 'FTP' (file transfer protocol). A learner who knows both constituents can infer this is an FTP access mode where identity is not required; the composition is literal and follows common adjective + noun naming patterns in technical language.
Etymology
Anonymous FTP comes from early internet days when people logged into an FTP server using the name anonymous or 'guest' so they did not need a personal account and could download files. So, it means 'a way to access files on a server without a personal login'.
