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Date:      31 Oct 2000 18:51:29 +0100
From:      Matthias Teege <matthias@mteege.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: standard ftp permissions?
Message-ID:  <87aebkyk4e.fsf@moon.mteege.de>
In-Reply-To: Ryan Thompson's message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2000 03:55:58 -0600 (CST)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010310354550.14845-100000@ren.sasknow.com>

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Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> writes:


> > i've setup a FreeBSD 4.0 box. Sysinstall suggest 'operator' as the ftp
> > "standard" group. Why so much permissions? Isn't somthing like
> > 'nogroup' a better choice?
> 
> Well, not really... You don't really want to have an ftp tree owned by
> nogroup.  Better is to use 'operator' and invite the ftp administrator(s)
> into that group.

Ok, but what is the main reason for this decision?

Many thanks
Matthias

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