WARNING!

[Neil Rickert]

In article <1991Apr15.140747.29793 at hubcap.clemson.edu> hubcap at hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor) writes:
>
>But the man page for ftpd (usually) also says something like:
>
>          ~ftp/etc) Make this directory owned by the superuser and unwrit-
>                    able by anyone.  The files passwd(5) and group(5) must
>                    be present for the ls command to work properly.

  I don't know about others, but I never interpreted this as implying that
~ftp/etc/passwd should have the same contents as /etc/passwd.  I replaced
all passwords with '*', and deleted most users from the copy we use.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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