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Date:      Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:32:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      mike@hyperreal.org
To:        Ryan Masse <rmasse@mastery.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FTPD | ftpusers
Message-ID:  <20001221223252.16690.qmail@hyperreal.org>
In-Reply-To: <00c501c06b96$5b0514e0$0600a8c0@Home> from Ryan Masse at "Dec 21, 2000 04:38:21 pm"

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Ryan Masse wrote:
> I'm curious to know if i were to add a group to the /etc/ftpusers file would
> ftpd allow ftp access to the users within that group? I have read the ftpd
> man pages and it only mentions users added to this file.

/etc/ftpusers is somewhat misnamed. It is actually for *denying* access,
so it's more like ftp non-users :)

If you want to deny ftp access to users by group, you put @groupname in
the /etc/ftpusers file. This *is* documented in the ftpd man page.

   - Mike
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