Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: How to get RFC documents dealing with TCP-IP Message-ID: <1990Jul20.154533.10525@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 20 Jul 90 15:45:33 GMT References: <1990Jul19.114801.1@amazon.llnl.gov> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 31 In <1990Jul19.114801.1@amazon.llnl.gov> oberman@amazon.llnl.gov writes: > For anonymous logins, one should follow the printed instructions and enter > their username on their local system, not guest. [...] be polite and > enter your real ID if that's what is asked for. (And it almost always is.) My experience is that you don't get prompted for your real ID until after it is too late. Maybe it's just my ftp implementation (SunOS-3.5.2 and MtXinu 4.3BSD systems) but I get prompted for the username (i.e. anonymous) and then the password, and only then do I get the line which requests that I "send ident as password". For example: ---------------- Script started on Fri Jul 20 11:37:58 1990 alanine> ftp uunet.uu.net Connected to uunet.uu.net. 220 uunet FTP server (Version 5.99 Wed May 23 14:40:19 EDT 1990) ready. Name (uunet.uu.net:(null)): anonymous Password (uunet.uu.net:anonymous): <> 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. alanine> ^Dexit script done on Fri Jul 20 11:38:16 1990 ---------------- -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"