Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:01:51 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: laszlo vagner <vagner@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp access Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980210090056.18028A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <199802091510.JAA18877@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>
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On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, laszlo vagner wrote:
> just as a test i created a file in the incoming directory
> and looked at it, it had a owner of "ftp" and group of "operator"
> the permissions were rw-r--r-- so i changed the owner of the file
> to root and proceeded to try and delete it using anon login
> and it deleted it even though it wasnt owned by ftp anymore.
It's the permission of the incoming *directory* you need to look at,
and not the permission of the file.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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