On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 19:09 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 7/10/25 18:58, hw wrote: > > On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 16:28 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Thu Jul 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM BST, hw wrote: > > > > > > > > Right. Anonymous logins are allowed and I have created a system account > > > > 'ftp', and it still doesn't work. It keeps asking for a password when > > > > trying to log in as 'anonymous' or 'ftp'. > > > > > > Conventionally, when logging into an anonymous ftp server, as a user, at > > > least in my experience, you would provide your email address as the > > > password. Try that? (Or a fake email?) > > > > Right again. Yet when you use filezilla with pure-ftpd running on > > Fedora, you can see that there is no password request showing up in the > > logging output in filezilla for anonymous logins. It's as the man page > > says. > > > > 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 > > Look at the config on both distros and see what's different.
I did :)
