From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 2 13: 8:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 542BA37B71C; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:08:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.org) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3C84213614; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:08:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:08:24 -0400 From: Chris Faulhaber To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Nik Clayton , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RC2 wrongness in INSTALL.TXT Message-ID: <20010402160824.A11308@peitho.fxp.org> References: <200104011920.f31JKMf81076@narf.osd.bsdi.com> <20010402092618.A2841@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200104021922.f32JM6d19576@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010402152605.B94099@peitho.fxp.org> <200104022005.f32K5iL20120@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104022005.f32K5iL20120@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@freebsd.org on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 01:05:44PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 01:05:44PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Chris Faulhaber wrote: >=20 > > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:22:06PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > --- 142,153 ---- > > > =3D20 > > > ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin > > > =3D20 > > > ! Warning: This may allow anyone on the local network (or Interne= t) to > > > ! make "anonymous FTP" connections to this machine, which may not = be=3D > > =3D20 > > > ! desirable. > >=20 > > You might also want to mention the world-writable 'incoming' directory > > that also gets set up . >=20 > Ummm...what? >=20 > In the context of these instructions, ~ftp is a (presumed write-only) > CDROM drive, not on the machine where you're trying to install FreeBSD, > but on another machine somewhere else on the network. Is it possible > you have this confused with the anonymous FTP service that can be > established via sysinstall? >=20 Oops, guess I should have looked at the context a bit longer :) --=20 Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iEYEARECAAYFAjrI3DgACgkQObaG4P6BelC3RgCfYuXDiyNiv/GTT9yhBlf0C4KZ Q4AAoIbcVVxjrN9Pico8E8YM68MHoIGN =+YAC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message