Subject: Re: sysinst in 1.3k
To: NetBSD current-users mailing list <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 03/18/1999 10:12:41
seebs@plethora.net wrote:
> But I did find a problem:  Something changed about how ftp is used, and it
> can no longer handle my password.

Does your password contain ':', '@' or '/'?  IIRC, sysinst calls ftp as :

	ftp ftp://username:password@host.domain/path/to/tarfile

For example, don't get your sets from a machine that wants 'anonymous' and
your email address ...  (I suppose you could use bang notation instead ;-)

J

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