>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:13:12 -0500
>From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>

>Mike Long writes:
>> >Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:37:42 -0500
>> >From: "John F. Woods" <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
>> 
>> >One comment: don't needlessly frustrate people who buy network
>> >administration texts at a bookstore.  Use /etc/ftpusers if it is
>> >present, otherwise use the more flexible deny/allow files.  You can
>> >put a comment in the stock ftpusers directing people to consider
>> >ftp.deny or ftp.allow instead.
>> 
>> I agree with this, but I would reverse the order:  look for
>> /etc/ftp.deny first, and then look for /etc/ftpusers iff /etc/ftp.deny
>> is absent.
>
>Frankly, the sense of ftpusers is so ass-backwards that I'd say it
>*should* die.

Tell it to the P.O.'d sysadmins whose FTP servers may be compromised
because they didn't notice the change (and no matter how well you
document it, some won't).
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