Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 14:19:18 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com>, bmah@freebsd.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RC2 wrongness in INSTALL.TXT Message-ID: <20010402141918.B56046@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20010402092618.A2841@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:26:18AM %2B0100 References: <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> <200104011920.f31JKMf81076@narf.osd.bsdi.com> <20010402092618.A2841@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Mon 2001-04-02 (09:26), Nik Clayton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:20:22PM -0700, Jordan K Hubbard wrote: > > Man, people are still reading those instructions? :-) > > > > I agree that they're wrong but I'm about to go off the air for 4 days > > in about 10 minutes here so I can't fix them myself. If anyone would > > care to do the honors, I'd appreciate it. > > Patch attached. Bruce, this is your area, do you want to do this, or > shall I? > > N > -- > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ > FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ > > --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- > Index: INSTALL.TXT > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/texts/i386/INSTALL.TXT,v > retrieving revision 1.15 > diff -u -r1.15 INSTALL.TXT > --- INSTALL.TXT 2001/03/16 22:55:55 1.15 > +++ INSTALL.TXT 2001/04/02 08:25:14 > @@ -140,9 +140,14 @@ > drive in some FreeBSD machine, it's quite easy: You simply add the > following line to the password file (using the vipw command): > > - ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin > + ftp::99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin > > - And anyone else on your network will now be able to choose a Media > + Warning: This may allow anyone on the local network (or Internet) to > + FTP to this machine, which may not be desirable. If so, use passwd(1) > + to assign a password to the "ftp" user. > + > + On the machine on which you are running the install, go to the "Options" > + menu and set "Release Name" to "any". You may then choose a Media > type of FTP and type in: ``ftp://<machine with CDROM drive>'' after > picking "URL" in the ftp sites menu. I don't believe this is correct; I have functioning anonymous FTP with: ftp:*:14:5::0:0:Anonymous FTP Admin:/var/ftp:/nonexistent Anything involving no password must be wrong, surely? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@smartspace.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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