Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:51:18 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com To: fschapachnik@vianetworks.com.ar Cc: kris@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed modification to ftpd Message-ID: <200012312351.PAA01718@spammie.svbug.com> In-Reply-To: <200012291655.NAA21010@ns1.via-net-works.net.ar>
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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
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