Subject: Re: /etc/ftpusers
To: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/31/1997 18:13:12
Mike Long writes:
> >Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:37:42 -0500
> >From: "John F. Woods" <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
> 
> >One comment: don't needlessly frustrate people who buy network
> >administration texts at a bookstore.  Use /etc/ftpusers if it is
> >present, otherwise use the more flexible deny/allow files.  You can
> >put a comment in the stock ftpusers directing people to consider
> >ftp.deny or ftp.allow instead.
> 
> I agree with this, but I would reverse the order:  look for
> /etc/ftp.deny first, and then look for /etc/ftpusers iff /etc/ftp.deny
> is absent.

Frankly, the sense of ftpusers is so ass-backwards that I'd say it
*should* die.

Perry