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From: Brian Hess <brian@usaor.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: FTP authentication help.
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:55:17 -0500
Organization: USA OnRamp
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Daniel Bigras wrote:
> 
> I run BSDI and I'd like to have a setup where a user would be able to
> log on my FTP server and have restricted access to where he could go.
> 
> Similar to the access an Anonymous user can have.

You are supposed to be able to do this with the guestgroup command in 
the ftpaccess file.  However I am unable to get this to work.  Looking 
for the solution now.
 
> Where can I get help and how can I do that?

See the man pages for ftpd and ftpaccess.  If you get it to work please 
let me know.

--brian
USA OnRamp
brian@usaor.net