Re: passwords at Debian's FTP site

[Alexander <vulture@abac.com>]

Hi...

Thanks for the tip. *snicker*

Alex

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 01:10:08 -0700 (PDT)
> From: George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>
> Reply-To: grep@oriole.sbay.org
> To: Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>
> Cc: Debian Userslist <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: passwords at Debian's FTP site
> Resent-Date: 19 Jul 1998 08:10:16 -0000
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> On 19 Jul 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> 
> > 
> > >> "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?
> > 
> 
> He might not have his FTP client (e.g. Netscape) configured.  I know I
> leave mine unconfigured to prevent people from putting ftp:// links in
> their page and snagging my email address by linking to a 2x2 transparent
> gif or something that I can not see but used to generate an FTP
> transaction with my email address as the password that they can glean from
> their ftp xferlog.
> 
> 
> 
> George Bonser
> 
> Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today?
> 
> 
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