| Path: | icdoc!zmact61 |
| From: | zmact61@doc.ic.ac.uk (D Spinellis) |
| Newsgroups: | uk.general |
| Subject: | Re: guestftp |
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| Date: | 15 Mar 90 12:36:42 GMT |
| References: | <2825@castle.ed.ac.uk> |
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| Reply-To: | dds@cc.ic.ac.uk (Diomidis Spinellis) |
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In article <2825@castle.ed.ac.uk> morna@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Morna J. Findlay) writes:
>
>I'm trying to get files off of uceng.uc.edu using the
>guestftp account.
>
>The machine asks for a password - I've tried all the usual
>things : "guest" "guestftp" "anonymous", "morna" etc, to no
>avail.
>
>Can anyone suggest a passwords that might work?
aaa, xyzzy, secret, pass, wizard :-)
Seriously, when you anon ftp the polite thing to do is to use your e-mail
address as a password. Some ftp daemons try to enforce this by checking
that the password contains an @ character. Try morna@lfcs.ec.ac.uk.
Diomidis
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