On Sat, 2 Dec 1995, John Nemeth wrote:

> On Dec 2,  9:27am, der Mouse wrote:
> } Of course, that's not to say the directories' modes shouldn't be
> } changed.  Installation tars should as universally compatible as
> } possible, and catering to this particular bug is easy and doesn't break
> } anything else.
> 
>      It breaks security on the FTP server.  You should never have
> owner writeable directories on an FTP server (except for the upload
> area).

Why is that? As long as the owner isn't ftp, there should be no problem 
AFAIK.

Peter