Top Document: SGI security Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -4- How can I log more information about logins? Next Document: -6- How can I get X authorization to work? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Read the ftpd(1M) manpage and/or the article in the March/April 1994 Pipeline. However, both discussions have a serious error: the ftp account's home directory (/usr/people/ftp) should be owned and writable only by root, NOT ftp. You might also want to make the 'pub' directory "sticky" with 'chmod +t' (like /tmp and /var/tmp) so that one user can't delete another's files. Two scripts which set up a secure or restricted anonymous FTP account are at ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/software/ftp/. User Contributions:Top Document: SGI security Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -4- How can I log more information about logins? Next Document: -6- How can I get X authorization to work? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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