Re: APT goes crazy with alpha.gnu.org
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:45:42AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> As you might have noticed, alpha.gnu.org's FTPd recently stopped
> asking for a password for the "anonymous" user [1], and now allows
> that user to login directly.
>
> This breaks some clients that are not prepared to cope with it. For
> example, apt-get does:
>
> < 220 GNU alpha FTP server ready.
> > USER anonymous
> < 230 Login successful. Have fun.
> > PASS apt_get_ftp_2.1@debian.linux.user
> < 500 Unknown command.
> [EOT]
>
> Is alpha.gnu.org adhering to standards, or should we fix apt?
It adheres to the standards if I interpret RFC 959 correctly.
Jeroen Dekkers
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