Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!mcnc!ecsgate!jds From: jds@uncecs.edu (Jane D. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: MacIP Message-ID: <1990Sep28.162856.5043@uncecs.edu> Date: 28 Sep 90 16:28:56 GMT References: <1990Sep3.224339.19176@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1990Sep26.173357.6582@morrow.stanford.edu> , <4203@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <8b0KofG00WBMA4h5R3@andrew.cmu.edu> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 60 Below is a copy of my correspondence with Stanford regarding a bug in Mac-IP. Thought you might be interested: --Jane From maas@jessica.stanford.edu Fri Jun 29 17:02:11 1990 Received: by ecsvax.uncecs.edu (5.57/UNCECS/9-06-89) id AA06623; Fri, 29 Jun 90 17:02:11 EDT Received: from jessica.stanford.edu by ecsgate.uncecs.edu (5.59/UNCECS/8-30-88) id AA16035; Fri, 29 Jun 90 16:59:29 EDT Received: from LOCALHOST by jessica.stanford.edu (5.59/25-eef) id AA27418; Fri, 29 Jun 90 13:59:06 PDT Message-Id: <9006292059.AA27418@jessica.stanford.edu> To: Jane Smith Subject: Re: anonymous complaint Date: Fri, 29 Jun 90 13:59:05 -0700 From: maas@jessica.stanford.edu Status: OR >Rather, a complaint about anonymous in MacIP v 4.0 (MacTCP) 2/14/90 > >Most of the time, the automatic logon to ftp servers accepting >'anonymous' as a userid works fine - unless the server insists that >'guest' be entered at a Password: prompt. > >Today I encountered and solved this problem. The ftp server >'nis.nsf.net' requires 'guest' be entered at the Password: prompt. >However, whenever I entered 'anonymous' at the Name: prompt, MacIP took >over and tried to login for me, never giving me the opportunity to *see* >the Password: prompt. I diddled with various telnet parameters in the >preferences dialogs to no avail. > >I noticed, however, that this server was only parsing the first 8 >characters of 'anonymous', so I entered 'anonymou' at the Name: prompt >and apparently therefore bypassed MacIP's auto login 'feature.' > >The day I run into a server that insists on all 9 characters of >'anonymous' for login, I will be in trouble, unable to override MacIP's >insistence on assistance. > >Then again, there may be an override mechanism I could set in MacIP, but >I can't find it in the documentation. Help? > >Otherwise, MacIP is great! Thank you . . . > >Jane Smith >Information Services >University of North Carolina Educational Computing Service >Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 > Yes, this is the second report on such problem with MacIP4.0. Right now there is no way to override the machanism. We haven't set any date for maintanence release. But when we do, this will be fixed. Andy ---------- Jane Smith, UNC Educational Computing Service, RTP, NC BITNET: jds@ecsvax Internet: jds@uncecs.edu ------------------------