anonymous ftp permission

David J. Camp david at wubios.wustl.edu
Thu Aug 24 11:12:35 AEST 1989


I see something weird in the 'man ftpd' documentation.  It says you should
make the /pub accounts owned by ftp and chmod 777.  This means that anyone
can write to it!  I set up my system like that at first, but discovered
the violation, so I restricted access to this directory.

-David-

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