From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 02:54:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1361716A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:54:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD00F43D3F for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:54:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bbobowski@cogeco.ca) Received: from [24.150.215.98] (d150-215-98.home.cgocable.net [24.150.215.98]) by fep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FAAD6883; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:54:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41ABE06B.9010309@cogeco.ca> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:52:27 -0500 From: Brian Bobowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Thunderbird/0.7.1 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: j p References: <20041130022752.20122.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041130022752.20122.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp login/password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:54:22 -0000 j p wrote: >i'm trying to download freebsd via ftp. what is the login and password. how do i copy the files > > Unless stated otherwise, an FTP site usually is set up for anonymous FTP; login is(if your client doesn't know how to do anon sign-on built in) anonymous and the suggested password is your full e-mail address(though many people don'd do that). There's absolutely no way I can help in actually getting the files without knowing what client you're using; that's an issue to take up with the FTP software's creators, not with FreeBSD, anyway. -BB