From owner-freebsd-security Sat Apr 10 0:55:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (alecto.physics.uiuc.edu [130.126.8.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1B214C26 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu) Received: (from igor@localhost) by alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id CAA21374; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 02:52:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Igor Roshchin Message-Id: <199904100752.CAA21374@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: Interesting problem: chowning files sent via FTP In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990409184654.045424d0@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at "Apr 9, 1999 7: 9:23 pm" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 02:52:54 -0500 (CDT) Cc: security@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Is this so? I was under the impression that the default group of a > new file was the login group of the creator, as specified in /etc/passwd. The group by default is the group of the directory. No sgid need to be set on the directory. I've been using this in FreeBSD for a few years. In System V (Irix) - it's different. Just an idea for the secure files transfer - "scp" (ssh) - it allows to to transfer everything securely. ssh can be used to delete the files. Igor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message