[4263] in Athena Bugs
ftp .netrc file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John F Carr)
Mon Feb 19 14:55:06 1990
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 14:54:44 -0500 (EST)
From: John F Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
ftp checks the permissions on the .netrc file and refuses to use
passwords from if any permission bits are set for group or other.
This is a fine example of a program that thinks it is smarter than you
are (as usual, it isn't really). This test will lose on an AFS
directory, and I don't think it is _ever_ a good idea. I should be able
to choose the mode of my dot files to be anything I want.
source reference: ............................/ucb/ftp/ruserpass.c
around line 110
