In most cases its probably easier just to use 'ftp -a', which
	logs in as anonymous for you :)

		David/absolute

	"You think you're God's gift to the opposite sex"
	"Maybe... if you believe in a malevolent God."

On 28 Mar 1999, Johan Danielsson wrote:

> greywolf@starwolf.com (Segmentation Violation.  Core dumped.) writes:
> 
> > The thing I thought of is that isn't there some way that, given a username
> > of either "anonymous" or "ftp" (which operate synonymously in most, if not
> > all, implementations...), that the "Password:" prompt could actually be put
> > into ECHO mode so you can see what you're typing?
> 
> Even better: default with a sane password (like user@domain). You
> might still (even though I haven't) want to type a real password for
> `ftp', or `anonymous'.
> 
>     $ ftp ftp.netbsd.org
>     Connected to ftp.netbsd.org.
>     220- THE NetBSD ARCHIVE
>     ...
>     220 nbftp.pa.vix.com FTP server (Version: 7.1.0) ready.
>     Trying GSSAPI...
>     The server doesn't support the FTP security extensions.
>     
>     *** Using plaintext user and password ***
>     
>     Name (ftp.netbsd.org:joda): ftp
>     331 Guest login ok, type your name as password.
>     Password (joda@pdc.kth.se): 
>     230-   Welcome to FTP.NetBSD.ORG                              ,        ,
>     ...
>     230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
>     ftp> quit
>     221 Goodbye.
>     
> /Johan
>     
>