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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!wizard.pn.com!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: FTP and hidden directories... Date: 7 Sep 1996 23:05:16 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 53 Message-ID: <50sv3c$92t@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <50mocp$e2@canton.charm.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E snowdog@charm.net (Sean Rolinson) wrote: > One of our users would like to be able to hide a directory (remove 'r' > bit) but allow people to 'cd' to it if they know the name of the > directory. [...] Is there a way to fix this? Seems to work for me: ftp> cd pub 250 CWD command successful. ftp> dir 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. total 12838 d--x--x--x 3 ftp guest 512 Sep 8 00:57 foo ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Here... 226 Transfer complete. ftp> dir foo 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. ls: foo: Permission denied 226 Transfer complete. ftp> cd foo/bar 250 CWD command successful. ftp> put backup local: backup remote: backup 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'backup'. 226 Transfer complete. 1352 bytes sent in 0.00 seconds (1.19 Meg/s) ftp> dir 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp guest 1352 Sep 8 01:02 backup 226 Transfer complete. ftp> bye 221 Goodbye. As you can see, if i know that it's foo/bar, i can CD there, and can upload there. > Secondly, when someone anonymously uploads a file to a user's > directory, that file has the userid of the FTP account. Is there a > way to made that file belong to the user who's directory it was > uploaded to? Get wuftpd for this. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j