hi all,

does anyone know why ftpusers works BACKWARDS?  i.e., users
listed there are NOT allowed to login.

i'm talking design-philosophy-why there.  normally, i would want my
ftp server to NOT allow login by default.  that means, if ftpusers
does not exist, i don't want anyone to be able to login anyway.
*then* i want to be able to enumerate whom i want to allow to login.

heh, all that and we haven't even gotten to why it's not called
ftp-non-users instead of ftpusers :).  since obviously the name
of the file is just completely opposite to what it does :).

i would google for this, but google isn't good at answering
philosophical questions :).

tiger

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