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Re: Bad Advise
From: jim () Tadpole COM (jim () Tadpole COM)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 15:18:09 -0500


% 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'?


Yeah, *anyone* can become 'nobody'.

Jim

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