HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Configuration Management

3. Enter login information
When you have successfully connected to your PC, another message will follow
the Connected to... message:
Name (vectrapc1.net2.corporate:userx):
This message is actually a login prompt, and there are several ways to respond to
it:
• Press Return to accept the default response.
In the above example, there are three parts to the displayed prompt:
1. The word Name
2. The network name for your PC (vectrapc1.net2.corporate)
3. The default user name (userx); this is usually the name of the HP-UX
account that you were using when you issued the ftp command in Step
1.
If you press Return, ftp will attempt to log you in to the PC using the same
name as you used to log into HP-UX. You will then be prompted to enter your
password. If, after noting the following caution and you feel comfortable
doing so, enter the 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.
• Enter a valid account name and password for your PC.
If the PC account you want to log in to is different from the user name you
used to log in to HP-UX, enter the user name for the PC account at the prompt.
You will then be prompted to enter the password for the account. If, after
noting the preceding caution and you feel comfortable doing so, enter the
account’s password.
• 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:
94 Configuring Networking