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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.
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  • If I try "user anonymous" I get the same error: "530 Sorry, only anonymous ftp allowed.".
    – Ramy Al Zuhouri
    Jan 15, 2013 at 22:57
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    What did you type for the password?
    – Scott Chamberlain
    Jan 15, 2013 at 23:02
  • @RamyAlZuhouri - see updated answer
    – Mark Henderson
    Jan 15, 2013 at 23:06
  • Ok the problem is that I was typing "user anonymous" too early, when ftp wasn't accepting commands.
    – Ramy Al Zuhouri
    Jan 15, 2013 at 23:08

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