From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 9 12:02:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13800 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:02:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13651 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:01:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16996; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:02:11 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA18100; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:01:52 +1300 (NZDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:01:51 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: laszlo vagner cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp access In-Reply-To: <199802091510.JAA18877@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" - Edmond Blackadder III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message