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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: anonymous ftp, and ~ftp/etc/{passwd,groups}
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Date: 5 Feb 91 16:18:11 GMT
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  Ftp needs /etc/passwd and /etc/groups (Does SunOS really use /etc/groups
instead of /etc/group?  Interesting.) so that when it runs /bin/ls for the
"dir" command, ls can look up UID's and GID's and display the owners of the
files being listed.

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