Re: Re: Bad Advise
Pete Hartman (pwh@bradley.bradley.edu)
Tue, 26 Jul 94 15:46:07 -0500
>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'?
Seems that since NFS access defaults to "nobody" that this is probably
the most insecure possible permission if someone can get nfs access to
the tree.