From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 21:55:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inconnu.isu.edu (inconnu.isu.edu [134.50.8.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5B337B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:55:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (galt@localhost) by inconnu.isu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA07033; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:54:37 -0700 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:54:37 -0700 (MST) From: John Galt To: George Reid Cc: Oliver Mills , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quick workaround, the packaged ncftp, ncftp2 or ncftp3 default to quickly log you in as anonymous... On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, George Reid wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Oliver Mills wrote: > > > I have been trying to get into the sendmail FTP site > > (ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.11.1.tar.gz) through > > the FreeBSD shell prompt but i have been unable to do so as it asks me > > for a password, I have been into this ftp site using IE5 and have had > > no dificulty what so ever. > > Use username anonymous, password is your e-mail address; that is > standard anonymous FTP. Micro$oft IE does this automatically. > > G > --- > "And then it comes to be that the soothing light > at the end of your tunnel was just a freight > train, comin' your way." > > George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- You have paid nothing for the preceding, therefore it's worth every penny you've paid for it: if you did pay for it, might I remind you of the immortal words of Phineas Taylor Barnum regarding fools and money? Who is John Galt? galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message