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From: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Anonymous ftp on Apollo
Keywords: anonymous ftp, not from Apollo?
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Date: 20 Dec 90 15:50:07 GMT
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In article <9012191633.AA02948@wolf.Uwyo.EDU> waldram@WOLF.UWYO.EDU writes:
>The information I got from the Apollo Response Center (8 months ago)
>was that anonymous ftp was not planned to be supported.  There was
>some problem with file security in limiting the home directory as
>the users root directory.  If this information is incorrect, I am
>extremely interested.  
>                  -jjw

Well I can't speak for Apollo, BUT there is a PD-version which lets people
use anonymous ftp. I've retreived the sources from osf.berkely.edu, and
patched a little to monitor the usuage of the anonymous account.
(Check for starnge actions.) And as far as I've seen did nobody get any files
that they weren't allowed to get. 

I even have links to files which are not under the ~ftp-directory. So I don't
have to put binaries in twice! :-)

If you want you can get it at ftp.ebe.ele.tue.nl in /pub/apollo/myftp.tar.Z.
Try it, if you want it keep it. 

Willem Jan Withagen.

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