[359] in Athena Bugs
Re: /etc/ftpd: anonymous bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Tue May 10 16:11:54 1988
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <testuser@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, shanzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 09 May 88 15:34:15 -0400.
Date: Tue, 10 May 88 16:11:07 EDT
> If you have "ftp" in /etc/passwd, and then you decide to lock out anonymous
> ftp's by adding "ftp" or "anonymous" (or both) to /etc/ftpusers, anonymous
> ftp's still work. I would call this a bug, but perhaps some would call it
> a feature.
I don't feel this is a bug; if you want to lock out anonymous FTP
action, then don't have a username called "ftp." Sounds simple enough
to me.
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