RFC1635 does not specify a password to use, which is where the string
"ftp" is being used.

Dan Fandrich wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:50:04PM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
>> Thanks (to the other ones who responded too). I've now made the new
>> password for anonymous transfers "ftp_at_example.com" and it is already using
>> the user name "anonymous". I opted for just 'ftp' there to make it shorter.
>>
>
> While many anonymous ftp servers accept a user name of 'ftp' as well as
> 'anonymous', RFC1635 says to use 'anonymous'. That's the historical name
> and is likely to work on more servers.
>
>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
Received on 2007-02-14