Many sites that run FTP servers enable anonymous ftp. Under this arrangement, users do not need an account on the server. The user name for anonymous access is typically 'anonymous', but historically 'ftp' was also used in the past; this account does not need a password.
Although users are commonly asked to send their email addresses as their passwords for "authentication," there is usually only trivial or no verification of what is actually entered. As modern FTP clients hide the login process from the user, and usually don't know the user's email address, the software supplies dummy passwords. For example:
Mozilla Firefox (2.0) — mozilla@example.com
KDE Konqueror (3.5) — anonymous@
wget (1.10.2) — -wget@
lftp (3.4.4) — lftp@
Internet Gopher has been suggested as an alternative to anonymous FTP, as well as Trivial File Transfer Protocol and File Service Protocol.
Although users are commonly asked to send their email addresses as their passwords for "authentication," there is usually only trivial or no verification of what is actually entered. As modern FTP clients hide the login process from the user, and usually don't know the user's email address, the software supplies dummy passwords. For example:
Mozilla Firefox (2.0) — mozilla@example.com
KDE Konqueror (3.5) — anonymous@
wget (1.10.2) — -wget@
lftp (3.4.4) — lftp@
Internet Gopher has been suggested as an alternative to anonymous FTP, as well as Trivial File Transfer Protocol and File Service Protocol.
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