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From: dbfunk@ICAEN.UIOWA.EDU (David B Funk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Help with anonymous FTP
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Date: 20 Feb 90 03:07:48 GMT
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In posting <7997.25da7d8e@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>  snoden%ohstpy asks:

>I set up anonymous FTP by the book (Unix Sys Admin by Nemeth,Snyder & Seebass)
>on a DN4500 (SR9.7, BSD 4.2 TCP/IP 3.1) and it does not work.  Remote users
>get "550 Can't set guest privledge".  Also TELNET will allow an FTP login and
>that's not right.  I suppose Aegis has something do do with this.  I would
>appreciate any help.  

The problem is that the BSD system call "chroot" is not implemented in
Aegis & Domain/OS. It is there but all attempts to use it just return
the error status EPERM (even for root). Somebody in Apollo explained
the problem as being caused by the fact that ".." of "/" is not "/".
When ftp sees the failure of "chroot" it emits the error "550". So for
the time being, anonymous ftp to an Apollo doesn't work. Does anybody
in Apollo know if there's going to be a change in this?

Dave Funk