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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How into a site by FTP?
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Date: 20 Oct 89 07:19:36 GMT
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In article <194@zodiac.rutgers.edu> gao@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes:
>Hi,
>
>every time I want to get into a site in FTP(for example
>129.97.129.72), I will encounter a login problem. I was
>asked to give user name & password.

Try user name "anonymous."  If the site has a public access directory,
it will then let you in with restricted permissions.

Earle R. Horton