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["Hareesh Haridas" <Hareesh.Haridas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi friends,

        I have found (much to my horror) that unless there is a chroot
setup done for ftp servers, they allow access to the entire disk
structure by default to any valid user - (this i found in installs of
redhat/wu-ftpd and mandrake/pro-ftpd) - and as a real user, i am able to
get even the /etc/passwd via ftp.=20

I have read in some sites that this was a bug in older ftp versions and
has been fixed in the new releases. But what i am seeing is the
opposite. Is there a way to limit this other than chroot (which seems to
be the best alternative) ? Just changing the permissions dont seem to be
a good idea. Correct me if i am wrong.

thanks in advance,
Hareesh.
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