Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!dvadura
From: dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: APR's and patches
Message-ID: <13165@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 89 22:06:55 GMT
References: <4273b2a35.0017b5e@caen.engin.umich.edu> <591@idacom.UUCP>
Reply-To: dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Waterloo
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In article <591@idacom.UUCP> danny@idacom.UUCP (Danny Wilson) writes:
>Dumb question, but why would a Sun be required for this service to
>be provided by Apollo??

Because SR 10.x does not support the 'chroot' system call, and they can't
implement anonymous ftp in a secure manner without it.

-dennis
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