From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 05:31:17 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA17941 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 05:31:17 -0700 Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (some.schmuck.lame.delegated.to.RAIN.PSG.COM [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA17924 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 05:31:05 -0700 Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA06865; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 14:28:28 +0200 From: John Hay Message-Id: <199506061228.OAA06865@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Anon FTP --> How to? To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 14:28:27 +0200 (SAT) Cc: wraith@hollywood.cinenet.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Seppo Kallio" at Jun 6, 95 03:09:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 745 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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