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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!sbctri.tri.sbc.com!newspump.wustl.edu!gumby!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news01.aud.alcatel.com!usenet From: David Bath <bath@aud.alcatel.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: anonymous ftp? Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 11:08:04 -0500 Organization: Alcatel Telecom, Richardson, TX Lines: 27 Message-ID: <31DD3DE4.15FB7483@aud.alcatel.com> References: <87hgrppck6.fsf@green.eggtech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cherokee.aud.alcatel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c) To: Mike Eggleston <mikee@eggtech.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:44508 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22911 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4244 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1214 Mike Eggleston wrote: > > I want to create an anonymous ftp site where I work and have a few > questions. Inside the /pub directory I want to have a /private that > only local users can use. That seems ease with a permissions of 770. > I also want to have a directory for customers to get fixes from us > directly. I tried making this directory 774 and to get the ftp daemon > to read files from that directory if the full filename was given, but > I'm getting permissions errors. The directory is not owned by ftp. > > Any ideas? > > Mike An easy one! Make the permissions 775. Without the x for all, all cannot cd to the directory. Found this one a few years ago when a user changed his home directory to 644 and he couldn't cd to his own home! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- David Bath mailto:bath@aud.alcatel.com Lightwave Systems Engineer Alcatel Telecom, Richardson, TX Standard Disclaimers