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In article <Pine.NEB.3.94.961130155159.443A-100000@misery.sdf.com>,
Tom Samplonius  <tom@sdf.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Stephen Melvin wrote:
>> I haven't read hackers in a while so accept my apologies if this is
>> redundant or inappropriate.  I thought this might be of use.  I have
>> need for an FTP-only login that is restricted like the anonymous
>> login (i.e. chroot'ed) but requires a password.  Here is my solution.

>  You could just have used wu-ftpd's guestgroup feature.

Some of us prefer to avoid using programs like wuftpd that are inherently
significantly more complex than the stock programs when we only need a
minor change to their behaviour.