Subject: Re: /etc/ftpusers
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/31/1997 19:47:33
> > >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 :)

Thus convincing them that Microsoft REALLY IS RIGHT about there being no
such thing as a standard UNIX, they reformat their NetBSD partition and
install Windows NT Server.