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Logging In

When ftp starts up we should see something like

Here, ftp is asking us to give the username that we want to login as on shoop.vpizza.com. The default here is mdw, which is my username on the system I'm using FTP from. Since I don't have an account on shoop.vpizza.com I can't login as myself. Instead, to access publicly-available software on an FTP site you login as anonymous, and give your Internet e-mail address (if you have one) as the password. So, we would type

Of course, you should give your e-mail address, instead of mine, and it won't echo to the screen as you're typing it (since it's technically a ``password''). ftp should allow us to login and we'll be ready to download software.



Ross Biro
Tue May 23 13:39:28 PDT 1995