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Re: procmail

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Melody Lynn Yoon)
Wed Aug 7 20:04:46 1996

Date: 	Wed, 7 Aug 1996 19:32:11 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
From: Melody Lynn Yoon <melody@voicenet.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
In-Reply-To:  <m0uoFfL-000V7eC@on-ramp.ior.com>

On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Ficus Kirkpatrick wrote:

> The problem there is that for an 'ftp only' account, the shell has to
> be in /etc/shells, or FTP will not work (with most FTP servers).

That's true, but if you use wuftp, since you are provided with source code,
it's trivial to modify the location of the file which is used to determine
if the person who is ftping has a valid shell.

Melody

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