Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 14:28:27 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Cc: wraith@hollywood.cinenet.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anon FTP --> How to? Message-ID: <199506061228.OAA06865@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <v01510107abf9f52ef707@[130.234.41.39]> from "Seppo Kallio" at Jun 6, 95 03:09:07 pm
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> > At 7:35 6/6/95, John Hay wrote: > >I don't think the standard ftpd can do things like that. You will need > >something like wu-ftpd which is a package. That is what most of the ftp > >sites use. > > Someone did alarm about wu-ftp. wu-ftpd is running as root and you can use > site -command to declare yourself as root user. > > Seppo > When you do a anonymous ftp to wu-ftp it does a chroot to your ftp directory and it changes the user to ftp. If there is a security hole before it does this maybe it is true, but otherwise it will be difficult. I did a "ps -aux" on the machine running wu-ftpd and it is running as user ftp. Maybe it was a previous version (before v2.4) that had such a problem? -- John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za
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