FTPD and Internet Explorer 6.0

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Mar 20), Super Daemon said:
> I've been curious about this for a while. I have a freebsd 5.3
> Release Server running FTPD. Users running MS WIndows can connect to
> it just find as long as they type in ftp://user@ipaddress. However,
> when they connect as ftp://ipaddress, the server thinks they are
> trying to connect anonymously. But i've noticed that this doesn't
> happen when running PROFTPD from the ports. Can anyone explain why
> this is??? Is there a way to connect as ftp://ipaddress and still get
> prompted for username and password under internet explorer 6.0???

You have to disable anonymous logins (add the 'ftp' user to to
/etc/ftpusers).  If MSIE is able to log in anonymously when given a
plain ftp://host URL, it will not display a login box (since it doesn't
need to).  ProFTPD probably has anonymous logins disabled by default.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com