On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 16:28 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Thu Jul 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM BST, hw wrote:
Right. Anonymous logins are allowed and I have created a system account
'ftp', and it still doesn't work. It keeps asking for a password when
trying to log in as 'anonymous' or 'ftp'.
Conventionally, when logging into an anonymous ftp server, as a user, at
least in my experience, you would provide your email address as the
password. Try that? (Or a fake email?)
Right again. Yet when you use filezilla with pure-ftpd running on
Fedora, you can see that there is no password request showing up in the
logging output in filezilla for anonymous logins. It's as the man page
says.
When running it on Debian, filezilla shows a password request for
anonymous logins, and the login fails. This is not what the man page
says. The ftp user doesn't have a password anyway. Apparently, Debians