Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:49:11 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Rick Morel <rmorel@morelr.com> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP Problem Message-ID: <3504.869590151@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jul 1997 11:42:34 CDT." <2.2.32.19970722164234.0091eee0@mail.morelr.com>
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> Agggghhhh! A _FEATURE_! (Insert Twilight Zone Theme here) I've been warped > into a Microsoft list! A _FEATURE_! :-) Yep, a feature, and you actually have the Microsoft case backwards. What they'd allow you to do is ONLY have the user be restricted to a small sandbox and getting at any other files because, say, the user was an administrator, would be impossible out-of-the-box and you'd have articles in NT user about how to work around this limitation with all sorts of wizardly tricks. > Really? Seems like that's "releasing" a lot of info the "great unwashed" > shouldn't be privy to. Well, UNIX systems have been typically run in environments where the "great unwashed" is actually a skilled userbase who would be extremely displeased _not_ to have this work (as would I since it violates the principle of least astonishment all over the place to have the trusted user so constrained). It's only comparatively recently that ISPs and their shell account machines have essentially introduced the new phenomenon of mixing truly unskilled & potentially hostile users to the UNIX environment, and it will take some time to figure out what security issues are raised by this and deal with them accordingly. Jordan
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