Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov. Message-ID: <1990Oct2.225409.5751@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 2 Oct 90 22:54:09 GMT References: <25803.270237fd@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 22 joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes: >2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: > >> Once you've reached abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov., how do you logon as a "guest?" >> (I'm new to this and not sure of what I'm doing...) >> >> Thanks. >> >> David Poland >> 2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu > >On abcfd20, as with most other FTP sites, login as "anonymous"and use >your login name as your password. (i.e. password = 2flntopaz) Technically correct, since the password is recorded and ignored, but I think polite behavior these days is to use a working path back to yourself as the password, i.e., for me, password=xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG, so the ftp site operators can get back to you by email if something you do is causing them problems. At least, that's how I interpreted the instructions I read. Kent, the man from xanth.