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Date:      Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:08:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: misc/30690: Bad advice in ftpd man page
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20010924090822.mheffner@vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010924135416.C50028@sunbay.com>

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On 24-Sep-2001 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
| On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 07:40:01PM -0700, Mike Heffner wrote:
| [...]
|>  How about the following? (stolen from the lukemftpd manpage)
|>  
|>             ~ftp/pub   This directory and the subdirectories beneath it
|>                        should be owned by the users and groups
|>                        responsible
|>                        for placing files in them, and be writable only
|>                        by
|>                        them (mode 755 or 775).  They should not be
|>                        owned or
|>                        writable by ftp or its group.
|>  
| The directory can't be owned by multiple users.  Just nit-picking.

Correct, but it's also referring to possible multiple subdirectories
beneath it, hence that's why I believe it's plural. However, I guess you
could argue that if you took out 'and the subdirectories beneath it' it
wouldn't make sense, but I think a user can figure it out. ;)


Mike

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  Mike Heffner     <mheffner@[acm.]vt.edu>
  Blacksburg, VA       <mikeh@FreeBSD.org>


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