On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 19:31, Bopolissimus Platypus wrote: > 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
i think ftpusers is just fine. i mean the users listed there have the aim of using ur ftp. kung ftp-non-users, ibig sabihin di gumagami ng ftp...so you shouldn't be blocking them in the first place. gulo no? ramil -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
