anonymous ftp permission

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From: David J. Camp
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1989 01:12

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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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From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
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Subject: anonymous ftp permission
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