Lost FTP login details

There is no "ftp login". The ftpd uses the same authentication mechanism(s) that Lunux itself does, or, in some cases, can be set up to use an external database such as MySQL.

If you've created a non-root account for yourself (and you certainly should have) then you can use that username and password for ftp. If you've restricted ftp in some way it might not work, but the likelihood is, it will.

On the other hand, you should avoid ftp in any case and use sftp which runs from ssh and is much more secure. The password exchange in ftp is cleartext and easily sniffed by bad guys. If you use sftp you can do everything while keeping your password secret.

I would suggest Cyberduck as a free, Windows and OS X sftp client (it does much more, too).

Hey, thanks for getting back to me. I think the problem was that a friend set-up regular FTP (not SFTP) for me a long time ago and I've been using that ever since. At least I always thought I was using FTP and not SFTP.

Anyway, I've logged in using SFTP so I'll use that from now on. I'll try to get hold of my friend (he's disappeared) and look into removing FTP access, if that's indeed what I was using before.

I am still using my root account, but I'll look into making a non-root one immediately.

Thanks for the help :)

@LoseTheGame:

Hey, thanks for getting back to me. I think the problem was that a friend set-up regular FTP (not SFTP) for me a long time ago and I've been using that ever since. At least I always thought I was using FTP and not SFTP.

Anyway, I've logged in using SFTP so I'll use that from now on. I'll try to get hold of my friend (he's disappeared) and look into removing FTP access, if that's indeed what I was using before.

I am still using my root account, but I'll look into making a non-root one immediately.

Thanks for the help :)

If you did a clean format/reinstall, there will not be an FTP server by default unless you installed one