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To: Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>
Subject: Re: Proposed modification to ftpd 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jan 2001 10:05:33 +0200."
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Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 11:33:57 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.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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