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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!dxcern!vxcrna.cern.ch!roeber From: roeber@vxcrna.cern.ch Subject: Re: A challenge to all true hackers: objects and types Message-ID: <1993Mar28.222556.1@vxcrna.cern.ch> Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Reply-To: roeber@cern.ch Organization: CERN -- European Organization for Nuclear Research References: <1993Mar25.184157.1@vxcrna.cern.ch> <1ov988$5l6@umd5.umd.edu> <1993Mar26.222417.1@vxcrna.cern.ch> <C4JnqK.KFH@sugar.neosoft.com> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 21:25:56 GMT Lines: 18 In article <C4JnqK.KFH@sugar.neosoft.com>, peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article <1993Mar26.222417.1@vxcrna.cern.ch> roeber@cern.ch writes: >> However, it displeases people who take the strict approach of "if I >> set a directory to deny some access, everything beneath it has that >> access denied." > > I would think so. You'd break 'chroot' completely, for example. I'd like to pursue this. What depends so heavily on chroot? Anonymous FTP does, but Multinet's FTP for VMS gets along nicely without it. And FTP exports a very limited functionality -- the Apollo anonymous ftp doesn't give access at the UID level, it forces everything to go through the name service. -- Frederick G. M. Roeber | CERN -- European Center for Nuclear Research e-mail: roeber@cern.ch or roeber@caltech.edu | work: +41 22 767 31 80 r-mail: CERN/PPE, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland | home: +33 50 20 82 99