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.
because if you had 100,000 users, and would like all of them to have access to ftp, having to cat, cut, and redirect all their names in there is a longer process. but adding names that shouldn't have access to ftp is easier, and is usually a shorter list. eg: root although i see your point. what could work is that /etc/ftpusers contains users who CAN ftp, and uses some kind of wildcard support eg: *:*, or *:group, user:* but i don't know, i think it works fine the way it is. -- [*] Anton M. Bonifacio [z] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [e] gnupg id: 3FC84E5B | yahoo: onesuicidalmonk [n] http://stealthdildo.net/pgp-key
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