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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: anonymous ftp?
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Date: 5 Jul 1996 13:59:13 -0500
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Mike Eggleston (mikee@eggtech.com) 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?

I don't see why it doesn't work.  Which OS are you using, and which ftpd?
It looks like it should work on FreeBSD anyway.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....