Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:21:07 -0800 From: "Jay Doscher" <jay@doscher.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca>, erik <erik@chapman.karlskrona.se> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: limit ftp users to their homedir Message-ID: <19990425031538.UWDM6760.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@[24.4.93.129]>
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This may be a dumb question, but what in the heck is wrong with GPL software? I will concede that with the widely distributed version there is a security hole, but that is not true of all GPL software. What is your reasoning? jay doscher jay@doscher.com ---------- >From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> >To: Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca>, erik <erik@chapman.karlskrona.se> >Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: limit ftp users to their homedir >Date: Sat, Apr 24, 1999, 5:11 PM > > Don't use ProFTPd; it's GPLed. The BSD ftpd is capable of chrooting users > if you put their names in /etc/ftpchroot; see the man page. > > --Brett > > > At 07:29 PM 4/24/99 -0300, Michael Richards wrote: >>On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, erik wrote: >> >>> is there a way to deny a registered user access to anything but his own >>> homedirectory? >>Yes, we do it with ProFTPD. Works quite well. Make sure you install the >>latest version. I think the pre-release 1 had an exploit. >> >>-Michael >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > > > "A man should learn to detect that gleam of light which flashes across his > mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. > Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his! In every > work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us > with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting > lesson than this: they teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with > good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the > other side. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense > precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be > forced to take with shame our own opinion from another." > > -- Ralph Waldo Emerson > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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