Re: Understanding a log entry in my public FTP

[Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roberto Alfonso wrote:
> Hi everyone
> This morning using system-logview to check out my log files i saw an 
> entry that I could understand partially
> Wed Jan 25 20:55:59 2006 3 200.80.164.56 <http://200.80.164.56/> (ip 
> from the incoming connection) 34816(file size) /quorpus/CV Roberto 
> Alfonso Espa??ol1.doc (file name) b _ o a someone@xxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:someone@xxxxxxxxxx> ftp 0 * c (this is the line that I dont 
> understand as I dont request any authentication why the email is in the 
> log?)

When logging in on an anonymous ftp site, it is traditional to use your 
email address as the password. That seems to be what has happened here.

Paul.