Date: 31 Oct 2000 18:51:29 +0100 From: Matthias Teege <matthias@mteege.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: standard ftp permissions? Message-ID: <87aebkyk4e.fsf@moon.mteege.de> In-Reply-To: Ryan Thompson's message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2000 03:55:58 -0600 (CST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010310354550.14845-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> writes: > > i've setup a FreeBSD 4.0 box. Sysinstall suggest 'operator' as the ftp > > "standard" group. Why so much permissions? Isn't somthing like > > 'nogroup' a better choice? > > Well, not really... You don't really want to have an ftp tree owned by > nogroup. Better is to use 'operator' and invite the ftp administrator(s) > into that group. Ok, but what is the main reason for this decision? Many thanks Matthias -- Matthias Teege -- matthias@mteege.de -- http://emugs.de make world not war PGP-Key auf Anfrage To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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