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From: David Bath <bath@aud.alcatel.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: anonymous ftp?
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 11:08:04 -0500
Organization: Alcatel Telecom, Richardson, TX
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Mike Eggleston wrote:
> 
> I want to create an anonymous ftp site where I work and have a few
> questions.  Inside the /pub directory I want to have a /private that
> only local users can use.  That seems ease with a permissions of 770.
> I also want to have a directory for customers to get fixes from us
> directly.  I tried making this directory 774 and to get the ftp daemon
> to read files from that directory if the full filename was given, but
> I'm getting permissions errors.  The directory is not owned by ftp.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Mike

An easy one!

Make the permissions 775. Without the x for all, all cannot cd to
the directory.

Found this one a few years ago when a user changed his home
directory to 644 and he couldn't cd to his own home!

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David Bath                            mailto:bath@aud.alcatel.com
Lightwave Systems Engineer          Alcatel Telecom, Richardson, TX
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