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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:31:57 -1000 (HST)
From:      "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        langfod@dihelix.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hiding user directories without breaking ftp?
Message-ID:  <199709130131.PAA07442@caliban.dihelix.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970913105714.09863@lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Sep 13, 97 10:57:14 am"

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>I've taken -isp off the list, since this doesn't have anything to do
>with ISPs.

Actually I am doing for for the ISP I am working with and it is a major
ISP issue...

>> I would like to figure out a way for getpwd() to work but break "ls".
>
>I don't understand why you're doing things this way.  It would suffice
>to set the permissions on the user directories, and this way you're
>making it impossible for anybody except root to find the directories.

Um that is EXCATLY the point.  I dont WANT Joe user to do a directory
listing and get a nice juicy list of spam addresses.

Thanks anyway,

-David Langford
 langfod@dihelix.com



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