From owner-freebsd-security Sun Dec 31 15:51:35 2000 From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 15:51:33 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from spammie.svbug.com (unknown [198.79.110.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641E537B402; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:51:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from spammie.svbug.com (localhost.mozie.org [127.0.0.1]) by spammie.svbug.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01718; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:51:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jessem@spammie.svbug.com) Message-Id: <200012312351.PAA01718@spammie.svbug.com> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:51:18 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com Reply-To: opentrax@email.com Subject: Re: Proposed modification to ftpd To: fschapachnik@vianetworks.com.ar Cc: kris@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200012291655.NAA21010@ns1.via-net-works.net.ar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: jessem@spammie.svbug.com Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29 Dec, Fernando Schapachnik wrote: > En un mensaje anterior, Kris Kennaway escribió: > -- Start of PGP signed section. >> On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:29:45PM -0300, Fernando Schapachnik wrote: >> > Hello: >> > I just submitted PR bin/23944, which contains a patch against >> > 4.2R ftpd to add the following funcionality to chrooted users: The >> > user's home dir is splitted by the first '/./'. The first part is >> > used to chroot, and the second to chdir (eg, >> > '/usr/local/www/data/site/./htdocs', means chroot to >> > /usr/local/www/data/site, and then chdir to htdocs). >> >> Ugh, that's ugly syntax. > > Maybe, but that's how wu-ftpd does it. The objetive is to simplify > migration from it. Anyway, this is a feature that stock FreeBSD ftpd > does not have and is very usefull if you are doing virtual hosting. > Adding a feature is not always a good thing. As I recall, Wu-ftp is one of those buggy version of ftpd. If people want this feature that wu-ftp has, then they should use wu-ftp. Adding this, and possibly bugs, to ftp does not make sense. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message