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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:42:12 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        "Frank W. Miller" <fwmiller@macalpine.cornfed.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftpd
Message-ID:  <20010217164212.B62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>
In-Reply-To: <200102161226.HAA22233@macalpine.cornfed.com>; from fwmiller@macalpine.cornfed.com on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:26:16AM -0500
References:  <200102161226.HAA22233@macalpine.cornfed.com>

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On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:26:16AM -0500, Frank W. Miller wrote:

[snip]

> The second solution doesnt work 
> might work.  I had my permission set as 755 on the pub directory and have
> changed them to 555.  That seems to disallow creating directories and
> I can still copy files to the directory as root.

root can always write to a file or directory regardless of the
permissons. But your anonymous ftp user will not be able to.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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