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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!battery.awod.com!usenet From: lam@awod.com (Ken Lam) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: FTP and hidden directories... Date: 8 Sep 1996 15:57:01 GMT Organization: Integrated Technical Systems Lines: 35 Message-ID: <50uqcd$ob3@battery.awod.com> References: <50mocp$e2@canton.charm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: chs0110.awod.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 In article <50mocp$e2@canton.charm.net>, snowdog@charm.net says... > > >Hello, > >We have recently installed BSDI 2.1 and have setup the anonymous FTP. >I have two hopefully easy and quick questions: > >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. He would also like to allow that same user to write to a >subdirectory below the unreadable directory. The problem we are >seeing is that the system will not allow him to write to that >directory. The error message is can't cwdir, permission denied, or >something to that effect. My guess is the system is not happy about >the parent directory not being readble. Is there a way to fix this? Make the directory group readable and give the user group access > >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? I believe that wuftp addresses this issue (although, I don't remember if it sets only for root access to uploaded files). -- --- Ken Lam lam@awod.com Integrated Technical Systems Systems, Networks, and Internet Solutions -- Defining Technology Today "'Plug and Play' was only applicable to the original ATARI(tm)"