I'm reading this RFC and just for exercise I am trying to connect to a FTP site. I'm trying to connect to ftp.freebsd.org via terminal. However as I've read in the RFC, an anonymous user is allowed to list files. But strangely if I use the ls command it asks me to login with user and pass:
530 Please login with USER and PASS. If I try to login with the USER command it tells me this:
530 Sorry, only anonymous ftp allowed. That sounds like contradictory to me. How do I get a non anonymous connection to that site?
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The typical implementation for anonymous FTP access is to log on with the username of anonymous and the password being your email address.
Here's the output of what I ran. If you can post the output if your terminal session that might help us a lot:
C:\Users\mark.henderson>ftp ftp.freebsd.org Connected to ftp.freebsd.org. 220 beastie.tdk.net FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready. User (ftp.freebsd.org:(none)): 500 USER : command not understood. Login failed. ftp> ls 530 Please login with USER and PASS. 530 Please login with USER and PASS. ftp> user anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. 
