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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 12:33:26 +0100
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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To: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
CC: Gareth Pearce <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Setup use on win2k - a me too ...
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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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