On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:45:42AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > As you might have noticed, alpha.gnu.org's FTPd recently stopped > asking for a password for the "anonymous" user [1], and now allows > that user to login directly. > > This breaks some clients that are not prepared to cope with it. For > example, apt-get does: > > < 220 GNU alpha FTP server ready. > > USER anonymous > < 230 Login successful. Have fun. > > PASS [EMAIL PROTECTED] > < 500 Unknown command. > [EOT] > > Is alpha.gnu.org adhering to standards, or should we fix apt?
It adheres to the standards if I interpret RFC 959 correctly. Jeroen Dekkers
