SUMMARY: Anonymous FTP permissions...

[Claude.P.Cantin at nrc.CA]

The permissions I had set on the $HOME/etc directory were 444 (that was
following directions from the manual).  The man pages are WRONG!!!

I simply made the entire $HOME/etc 555, and everything worked as
expected.

Special thanks to Marc Desrochers who was the first to respond (and had
the right answer!).

Also thanks for
  From: Marc Desrochers <marc at bobino.bri.nrc.ca>
  From: "Jason Molenda" <molenda at s1.msi.umn.edu>
  From: jack at cwi.nl
  From: Matthew J. Wicks <wicks at dcdmjw.fnal.gov>
  From: "Dan Karron (karron at nyu.edu" <karron at karron.med.nyu.edu>
who responded to my querry.

Thank You,

    Claude Cantin


My original posting:

>I have set up an anonymous ftp account on our 4D/280S.
>
>It works fine, including long listings ("ls -l").
>
>BUT "ls -l" produces GID and UID instead of group names and user names.
>
>The ftpd man page says that $HOME/etc/group and $HOME/etc/passwd should
>have permissions 444 in order for group and user names be displayed with
>the "ls -l" command...
>
>This does not work for me...
>
>Any suggestions???