On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:58:03 +0200 > hw <[email protected]> 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
