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 18:24:12
Mike Long writes:
> >Frankly, the sense of ftpusers is so ass-backwards that I'd say it
> >*should* die.
> 
> Tell it to the P.O.'d sysadmins whose FTP servers may be compromised
> because they didn't notice the change (and no matter how well you
> document it, some won't).

Easy fix: make ftpd stop working if there is an /etc/ftpusers file :)

Perry