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From: jah@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jonathan Helton)
Subject: Re: WANTED: America Online OPINIONS
Message-ID: <1991May29.191537.16812@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Northwestern University
References: <54890@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 19:15:37 GMT
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In article <54890@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
>In article <1991May28.192453.15345@unislc.uucp>, mrc@unislc.uucp 
>(Mike Cederholm) [ still working on an Internet address ] writes...
>
>>During the last week I have been fortunate in finding a means to get to the
>>internet.  I now could ftp to SUMEX to get any information/etc available....
>>only one probelm..  I keep getting a "permission denied" message back from
>>sumex-aim.stanford.edu when I execute:
>>	ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu
>> 
>>   It is my understanding that I should be able to use the user "anonymous"
>>   and get files from the public directories.  My login name on the machine
>>   that I am comming from is mrc... is this keeping me from getting in ...
>>   or What am I doing wrong here... 
>
>Sumex is looking for a password of the form "username@hostname".
>This is basically a courtesy; any password of this form will work.
>
>In this case, "mrc@unislc.sun.com" would be a polite way of giving
>a meaningful username.
>
>Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)

Sorry Bill, but when Mike issues the ftp command at his machine he's not at
sumex yet.  His machine is not allowing him to access the ftp command.  

Sumex-aim accepts anything as a password.


-- 
Jonathan Helton
jah@casbah.acns.nwu.edu