Re: Bad Advise

G.J.W. Hagenaars (xx247@freenet.carleton.ca)
Tue, 26 Jul 1994 08:23:05 -0400 (EDT)

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Christopher W. Klaus wrote:

% Here is some advise from Sun that I highly recommend you DO NOT DO.
% 
%           Make the home directory owned by ``ftp'' and unwritable
%           by anyone. 
% 
% I highly recommend you change that to owned by ``root''.  

I was thinking about ownership of the whole ftp-tree by user `nobody'. Are
there any benefits to using `root' instead of `nobody'?

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