Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 01:33:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Khelbin Sunvold <khelbin@ntplx.net> To: David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hiding user directories without breaking ftp? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970913013106.26326C-100000@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <199709130131.PAA07442@caliban.dihelix.com>
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, David Langford wrote: > >I don't understand why you're doing things this way. It would suffice > >to set the permissions on the user directories, and this way you're > >making it impossible for anybody except root to find the directories. > > Um that is EXCATLY the point. I dont WANT Joe user to do a directory > listing and get a nice juicy list of spam addresses. Tell me if I'm not understanding you right but a user's $HOME doesn't have to be the name of their email address.
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