[linux-help] Re: [linux-help]

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

What distro and version are you using?  ~Anne

Hareesh Haridas wrote:

>
>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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