From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 10 7: 9:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.safepages.com (smtp.safepages.com [192.41.32.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C1C15186 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 07:09:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@welsh.dynip.com) Received: from welsh.dynip.com (03-122.038.popsite.net [209.198.10.122]) by smtp.safepages.com (8.8.5) id IAA16258; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 08:09:47 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: smtp.safepages.com: Host 03-122.038.popsite.net [209.198.10.122] claimed to be welsh.dynip.com Received: (qmail 20561 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Oct 1999 14:09:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Oct 1999 14:09:13 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 10:09:13 -0400 (EDT) From: jason To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hiding directories on ftp server In-Reply-To: <75825.939550236@axl.noc.iafrica.com> 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 i must be doing something horribly wrong.. ive set the pub/leech dir to be chmod 100 any I can still see that directory from a windows98 machine running its dos ftp program... heres the ls -al from the dos box d-wx------ 2 root operator 512 Oct 8 21:33 leech I dont think I have my ftp user has root priveleges.. is this weird or am i just totally missing something? thanks for being patient with me.. ;) -- ======================================================================= | Jason Welsh jason@welsh.dynip.com | If you think there's | | | good in everybody, you | | http://welsh.dynip.com/ | haven't met everybody. | ======================================================================= On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Sat, 09 Oct 1999 15:56:27 -0400, jason wrote: > > > I wanted the directory to not be visible (as well as the files in it).. > > So apply your brain to the problem and take it one step further. :-) > > You already know that removing read permission on a directory makes its > contents invisible, right? So: > > cd /path/to/ftp/directory > mkdir arb > chmod 751 arb > mkdir arb/leech > chmod 751 arb/leech > > If your ftp users are in the group of the user creating these > directories, then you should use mode 711 instead of 751. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > PS: You could simplify the commands above, but I wanted to make sure you > understand what's happening. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message