Re: FTP anonymous

On 10 Nov 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.redhat, in article
<1163150714.325723.227350@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, hwlyo wrote:

I am trying to ftp a file as anonymous from a SCO to a CentOS 4.4 (to
transfer big files with an automated task) and without asking for user
and password, but It looks like vsftp is too "vs"(very secure), I can
not find a way to do it.

I'm assuming that the anonymous user is allowed to write to the
file server - that's not always the case. OK I see that's fixed.

C:\>ftp 192.168.0.1
Connected to 192.168.0.1
220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
User (192.168.0.1:(none)):
331 Please specify the password.

220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
Name (192.168.0.1:root):
331 Please specify the password.

In both cases, you get

Login failed.

What happens if you log in - either as "anonymous" or "ftp" which is often
an alias for "anonymous"? User "" is not the anonymous user, and your
display should show something like

220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
User (192.168.0.1:(none)): anonymous

Old guy
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