From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 9:58:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moon.mteege.de (ppps-nb03.MVnet.de [194.25.108.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFDB37B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:58:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from matthias@localhost) by moon.mteege.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14861; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:51:30 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from matthias@mteege.de) X-Authentication-Warning: moon.mteege.de: matthias set sender to matthias@mteege.de using -f To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: standard ftp permissions? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Matthias Teege Date: 31 Oct 2000 18:51:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: Ryan Thompson's message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2000 03:55:58 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: <87aebkyk4e.fsf@moon.mteege.de> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Thompson writes: > > i've setup a FreeBSD 4.0 box. Sysinstall suggest 'operator' as the ftp > > "standard" group. Why so much permissions? Isn't somthing like > > 'nogroup' a better choice? > > Well, not really... You don't really want to have an ftp tree owned by > nogroup. Better is to use 'operator' and invite the ftp administrator(s) > into that group. Ok, but what is the main reason for this decision? Many thanks Matthias -- Matthias Teege -- matthias@mteege.de -- http://emugs.de make world not war PGP-Key auf Anfrage To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message