[Nottingham] ProFTPD

[Roger Light]

On 21/09/06, Graeme Fowler <graeme at graemef.net> wrote:

> AUTH is not a valid FTP command. If you're doing this raw, with a telnet
> session to port 21, you need "USER [username]" followed by "PASS
> [password]" as two separate commands.
>
> If you're using an FTP client, it looks broken to me!

The standard Linux client uses the AUTH command. It happens after you
send the USER command and before the password. I'm reasonably certain
it is for querying whether ftp over tls is available. Nice to have,
but not necessary to use ftp.

Cheers,

Roger