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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Jerry Preeper <preeper@cts.com>
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Subject: Re: chroot and permissions problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:29:50 PST."
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On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:29:50 PST, Jerry Preeper wrote:

> Yes, the permissions on the directories are generally 775 and everything
> worked fine until I upgraded to proftpd-pre9...

Perhaps proftpd used to run sgid and now it doesn't?  You should
probably check its release notes.  But if the software doesn't run suid
or sgid, then the behaviour you're seeing now is "normal UNIX
behaviour", whatever the hell that is. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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