From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 23 17:03:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12909 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:03:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com (ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com [205.152.173.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12902 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:03:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ck@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com) Received: (from ck@localhost) by ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id UAA17955 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:02:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:02:52 -0500 From: Christian Kuhtz To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: fetch Message-ID: <19990123200252.D15805@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey guys: I thought I'd put this up for discussion here. Does anyone have objections to changing the default behavior for how the long password for fetch is chosen? Most FTP servers which do check the password given for an anonymous login, expect either 'username@' or 'username@valid.FQDN'. If the password is given just simply as 'username@host', login is refused. Can we do one of the following changes? a) make 'username@' the default b) leave 'username@domain' the default, as long as it can be verified to be a valid domain name, otherwise make it 'username@' Either way, the default could be overwritten by FTP_PASSWORD. Sure, I could achieve the above that way, too. However, it appears to make more sense to chose the described default than the current default, given the way anonymous FTP works. Please comment... Cheers, Chris -- "Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists." -- John Kenneth Galbraith [Disclaimer: I speak for myself and my views are my own and not in any way to be construed as the views of BellSouth Corporation. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message