Subject: Re: Permissions of /var/spool/ftp/pub
To: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/04/1999 21:51:17
Agreed - that does seem overly 'open'. Have updated
etc/mtree/special to use 0775.
In future its probably best to send these in via send-pr :)
David/absolute
-=- They took away my irony, but they left my deceit -=-
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Should the default permissions on ~ftp/pub _really_ be 777? It seems to
> me that you really don't want people, by default, to be able to do any
> arbitrary writes to the directory, especially since common practice is
> to provide an incoming dorectory for uploads.
>
> From output of /etc/security:
> Checking special files and directories.
> var/spool/ftp/pub:
> permissions (0777, 0775)
>