jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (04/11/91)
In article <MEISSNER.91Apr10175314@curley.osf.org>, meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: |> Ummm, unless you wrote your own ftpd, the standard BSD one explicitly |> chroot's anonymous FTP requests to the logon directory of the user |> 'ftp'. In every system manual, where I've seen how to set up |> anonymous FTP, it mentions this, and tells the system manager never to |> make the logon directory be '/'. The system manual also tells the system manager that (quoting from the BSD version of the manual) "The files passwd(5) and group(5) must be present [in ~ftp/etc] for the ls command to work properly." Many system admins simply copy their /etc/passwd file to ~ftp/etc/passwd when setting it up, rather than doing something smart like only putting a couple entries in ~ftp/etc/passwd or changing all the passwords in it to "*" before installing it. -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710