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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Strange reaction to wierd file mode
Message-ID: <44063@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 18:35:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 18:35:59 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 04:46:22 EDT
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Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Keywords: chmod open creat write error bug-p
Summary: Clearly a feature!

It is clearly a feature, and a useful one at that.

Consider that you have a public ftp directory which anyone can
access via anonymous ftp. You want to have the normal users on your
system be able to put files into ~ftp, but you don't want to let
the "anonymous" user be able to write or delete files in that directory.

The simple solution is to make the directory mode 577 owned by
ftp. It works.

---rick