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Re: Bad Advise
From: xx247 () freenet carleton ca (G.J.W. Hagenaars)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 08:23:05 -0400 (EDT)

Christopher W. Klaus wrote:

% Here is some advise from Sun that I highly recommend you DO NOT DO.
% 
%           Make the home directory owned by ``ftp'' and unwritable
%           by anyone. 
% 
% I highly recommend you change that to owned by ``root''.  

I was thinking about ownership of the whole ftp-tree by user `nobody'. Are
there any benefits to using `root' instead of `nobody'?

G.J.W. Hagenaars                  | postmaster National Capital Freenet
xx247 () freenet carleton ca         | Remembering Mike Carty 1968-1994
gert-jan () stack urc tue nl         | I'm Dutch, what's _your_ excuse?

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