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Date:      Mon, 01 Jan 2001 11:33:57 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposed modification to ftpd 
Message-ID:  <200101011833.LAA97739@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jan 2001 10:05:33 %2B0200." <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101011001510.17001-100000@jamus.xpert.com> 
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101011001510.17001-100000@jamus.xpert.com>  

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In message <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101011001510.17001-100000@jamus.xpert.com> Roman Shterenzon writes:
: Perhaps it's possible to leave the delimeter as an option, which defaults
: to "/./"? Or I'm missing the point?

If someone set it to : bad things would happen.  Keep in mind that we
have this in a passwd file and the syntax was chosen, no doubt, do
that ~foo would work as the full path to the file outside the chroot'd
environment.  No other syntax that I'm aware of offers that.

Warner


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