Is Apple not recommending anonymous ftp for A/UX?

[Steve Green]

In article <1083 at gort.cs.utexas.edu> jason at cs.utexas.edu (Jason Levitt) writes:
>
>I can't find anywhere in the A/UX 1.1 manuals where 
>setting up anonymous ftp is described. This is no big
>deal -- I can still set it up, but since it doesn't seem
>to be mentioned anywhere, it gives me the impression that
>Apple doesn't want people doing it, perhaps because it is
>such a potential security hole. But then, I can ftp to apple.com....
>Or maybe it's just an omission. Any thoughts?

>From ftpd(1M)
	  4)    If the user name is ``anonymous'' or ``ftp'', an
		anonymous ftp account must be present in the password
		file (user ``ftp'').  In this case the user is allowed
		to log in by specifying any password (by convention
		this is given as the client host's name).

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