Subject: Re: /etc/ftpusers
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
List: current-users
Date: 04/01/1997 13:57:10
cjs@portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:
>Here's another thought. We could combine the allow and deny functions
>into the single /etc/ftpusers file. Each username may have after
>it `allow' or `deny'; if the keyword is not present, it would
>default to `deny'.  In addition, one can add a record for `:default'
>to set the default for users not listed in that file. If not present,
>it defaults to allow.

And if a username is followed by `restrict' make ftpd chroot as for
an anon-FTP.  IRIX does it this way.

-- 
Christoph Badura

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