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Re: passwords at Debian's FTP site



>> "DJ" == Dave Jones <kajukenbo@ibm.net> writes:

DJ> I was going to download the latest
DJ> libc5 and netstd packages from debian's ftp site and it asks for a username
DJ> and password when I try to save the files.

You log in as anonymous to ftp.debian.org and issue a get command. You
are then asked about a password? IIRC, the ftp protocol has no means
for doing so.

You are not trying to upload files, aren't you?

Ciao,
	Martin

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