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From: Khelbin Sunvold <khelbin@ntplx.net>
To: David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com>
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Subject: Re: Hiding user directories without breaking ftp?
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, David Langford wrote:

> >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.

Tell me if I'm not understanding you right but a user's $HOME doesn't have
to be the name of their email address.