Re: Where does pure-ftpd store files when anonymous logs in?

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM Charles Curley
<charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:58:03 +0200
> hw <hw@adminart.net> wrote:
>
> > 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 pure-ftpd version doesn't understand that it must not ask for
> > a password for anonymous logins for unknown reasons.
>
> I seem to recall that the anonymous was exactly that, anonymous. I.e.
> the server would let anyone log in. But that didn't mean no login,
> like a web page. It meant you logged in with the user name "anonymous"
> and any password you liked.
>
> Since the Internet was much smaller, more friendly, and more courteous,
> FTP site operators liked to know who there users were. So it became the
> custom to use your email address as your password, thus identifying
> yourself to your kindly hosts.

Yeah, that's what I remember, too. Back when FTP was used.

Nowadays it seems like scp and sftp are the norm, not ftp.

Jeff