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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!usenet From: vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: FTP client bug Date: 12 Mar 1993 09:43:09 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Lines: 20 Message-ID: <1nplvdINNdqc@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sylvester.cc.utexas.edu Keywords: ftp client protocol tilde Here is the bug; Log in as user foo on system A (your system) su to root. ftp to system B log in under ftp as user foo on system B put ~/.profile ~/.profile The last step will expand to put ~foo/.profile ~foo/.profile and not put ~root/.profile ~foo/.profile like I would expect. Correct me if I am wrong. This seems like the Wrong Thing to do. Is tilde expansion perfomed on the foreign system, even on source files? Or is this a Real Bug? It's a small bug, at any rate. Note that the above sequence still accesses the source file as user root. -- Protect our endangered bandwidth - reply by email. NO BIG SIGS! VaX#n8 vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu - finger for more info if you even care.