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Re: Setup use on win2k - a me too ...
Robert Collins wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 21:32, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> > Hi,
> ...
>
> > get_url_to_string ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin/setup.ini
> > ftp > x
> > ftp > x
> > ftp > x
> > repeat the ftp line semi-ad-infinitum.
>
> Thanks Gareth, this does look like a fault in the ftp state machine.
> I'll investigate..
Rob there is something suspicious here. The net_ftp_user and the
net_ftp_passwd
pointers are never zeroed before get_ftp_auth() is called ... so if
there is
garbage in the pointers setup will try to auth against these instead of
USER anonymous.
My 2 cents :)
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