Re: BSD/OS 3.0 config_anonftp script

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On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, trey wrote:

> BSD/OS 3.0 comes without any anonymous ftp set up out-of-the-box.
> Configuration of anonymous ftp is provided by the perl script
> /usr/sbin/config_anonftp (for those who don't just set this up by hand).
> A problem seems to exist in the following lines of this script:
>
> &copy_file("/etc", "group", "$ftp{\"DIR\"}/etc", 0444);
> &copy_file("/etc", "pwd.db", "$ftp{\"DIR\"}/etc", 0444);
>
> What ever happened to creating dummy group and passwd files for anonymous
> ftp?  This script copies the full system group and pwd.db files where

Also true for BSDI 2.0, 2.01, and 2.1.

Bill

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