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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!night.primate.wisc.edu!caen!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!news.ans.net!interaccess!usenet From: Brad Schick <schickb@aol.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: FTP and the BSD file system Date: 4 Feb 1995 02:52:38 GMT Organization: InterAccess Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3guq5m$jk8@nntp.interaccess.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nb-dyna116.interaccess.com I recently started and FTP site with a local service provider and have had a few difficulties. Since the support people seem to be clueless, maybe someone else can help. My service provider is running BSD/386 1.1 I have not been able to find a method of preventing FTP users from overwriting files posted with the same name. For example, PUT TEST followed by a second PUT TEST overwrites the first TEST with the second TEST. This happens even if the TEST file is r--r--r-- (444). Anonymous FTP users can also overwrite files they do not own. Is the FTP server getting around the BSD file system? I tested this on a machine running Solaris 2.3 and it worked correctly. Anonymous FTP users could not overwrite files that already existed with read-only permission. I have also been unable to automatically display messages when a user changes into a directory. Other FTP servers automatically show ".message" files. How can I do this with the BSD FTP server? - Brad Schick