Rebecca> This is the error message. I get a request for password Rebecca> and tried my email address. That didn't work. I thought Rebecca> the CVS password was Zawinski, but don't remember seeing Rebecca> a password for the update packages command. APA> Rebecca, APA> it looks to me as if you tried logging in with username rebecca. APA> You should be able to get in as follows: APA> M-x dired RET /ftp＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub RET The package user interface will fail for all the users that have `efs-default-user' set to something else than "anonymous" or "ftp". The attached patch should fix this. 1998-11-17 Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo(a)di.epfl.ch&gt; * package-get.el (package-get-base-filename): Add `anonymous' user prefix Index: lisp/package-get.el =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs-20/lisp/package-get.el,v retrieving revision 1.21 diff -u -u -r1.21 package-get.el --- package-get.el 1998/10/16 06:25:25 1.21 +++ package-get.el 1998/11/17 15:55:13 ＠＠ -179,7 +179,7 ＠＠ :group 'package-get) (defcustom package-get-base-filename - "/ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST" + "/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST" "*Name of the default package database file, usually on ftp.xemacs.org." :type 'file :group 'package-get)