HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Configuration Management

3. Enter login information
When you have successfully connected to your HP-UX system, another message
will follow the Connected to... message:
Name (flserver.net2.corporate:(none)):
This message is actually a login prompt, and there are two ways to respond to it:
• Enter a valid account name and password for your PC.
You will then be prompted to enter the password for the account. If after
noting the following caution you feel comfortable doing so, enter the account’s
password.
CAUTION: It is important to note here that any characters you type at your
keyboard, including your user name and password will be transmitted over
the network to your PC unencrypted!
Although it is unlikely, especially if your network is strictly an internal
network, it is possible that someone could be eavesdropping on your network
lines and obtain your login information. If this is a concern to you, HP strongly
recommends that you use the anonymous login option described in the
following text.
• Use FTP’s anonymous login feature
Because account names and passwords that you enter from the keyboard
during the FTP login process are sent to the remote computer unencrypted
(making this sensitive information vulnerable to network eavesdroppers),
FTP provides a way to access a remote computer using what is known as an
anonymous login. To use this feature, enter the word anonymous at the
prompt:
Name (flserver.net2.corporate:userx):anonymous
You will then be prompted to enter a password in a special way:
331 Anonymous access allowed, send identity (e-mail name) as password.
Instead of entering the actual password for an account, enter your e-mail
address as a way of identifying yourself to the FTP server:
Password: [e-mail]
After successfully entering the HP-UX account information you will be logged in
to your HP-UX system and placed in the directory designated as the ftp-root
directory.
Using the FTP client’s cd command, remote users (logged in anonymously) can
access:
• the ftp-root directory
• any of the subdirectories of the ftp-root directory
Configuring File Transfer Protocol (FTP) 101