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From: Dan Karron@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Anonymous FTP permissions...
Message-ID: <9101290338.AA00993@karron.med.nyu.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 03:38:59 GMT
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Huh ? Correct or contradictory ? Sounds like cognative dissonance.
(The ability to think one thing in the face of the obvious facts saying
the exact opposite.)

>From: Andrew Cherenson <ucbvax.berkeley.edu!sgi!arc%kaibab.wpd.sgi.com>
>Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
>Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Anonymous FTP permissions...
>Message-Id: <82944@sgi.sgi.com>
>References: <9101281723.aa19576@VMB.BRL.MIL>
>Sender: info-iris-request@BRL.MIL
>To: info-iris@BRL.MIL
>
>In article <9101281723.aa19576@VMB.BRL.MIL> Claude.P.Cantin@nrc.CA writes:
>>
>>The permissions I had set on the $HOME/etc directory were 444 (that was
>>following directions from the manual).  The man pages are WRONG!!!
>
>The ftpd(1M) man page is correct.  It says:
                          ???????
>	"Make this directory owned by the super-user and unwritable 
>	by anyone.  The files passwd(4) and group(4) must be present [...] 
>	These files should be mode 444."

So what are you saying, 444 or 555 ?

>The first sentence implies mode 555.
>
>The example on page 8-21 in the Network Communications Guide also
>uses mode 555.

Well good for that. I am glad I knew to look there before I went to the
man page. 
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