Agreed - that does seem overly 'open'. Have updated
	etc/mtree/special to use 0775.

	In future its probably best to send these in via send-pr :)

		David/absolute

         -=- They took away my irony, but they left my deceit  -=-

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Paul Goyette wrote:

> Should the default permissions on ~ftp/pub _really_ be 777?  It seems to
> me that you really don't want people, by default, to be able to do any
> arbitrary writes to the directory, especially since common practice is
> to provide an incoming dorectory for uploads.
> 
> From output of /etc/security:
> 	Checking special files and directories.
> 	var/spool/ftp/pub: 
> 		permissions (0777, 0775)
>