Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Anonymous FTP Message-ID: Date: 21 Dec 89 04:37:58 GMT Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 16 If your system allows anonymous FTP, then it should map an unknown userid into the one used for anonymous FTP. The effect of this is that users who cannot spell anonymoose still get logged in as anonymous. Perhaps this idea is obvious to everyone else, and they discarded it for one reason or another. It wasn't obvious to me, and I thought it was a good idea. So I hacked it into KA9Q's NOS and it's running on grape.ecs.clarkson.edu. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989. I think killing is value-neutral in and of itself. -- Gary Strand, 8 Nov 1989. Liberals run this country, by and large. -- Clayton Cramer, 20 Nov 1989. Shut up and mind your Canadian business, you meddlesome foreigner. -- TK, 23 N.