From owner-freebsd-security Sat Feb 17 16:42:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D172837B401 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:42:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:40:28 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1I0gDi33711; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:42:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:42:12 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Frank W. Miller" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftpd Message-ID: <20010217164212.B62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <200102161226.HAA22233@macalpine.cornfed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102161226.HAA22233@macalpine.cornfed.com>; from fwmiller@macalpine.cornfed.com on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:26:16AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message