anonymous ftp, and ~ftp/etc/{passwd,groups}
Jonathan I. Kamens
jik at athena.mit.edu
Wed Feb 6 03:18:11 AEST 1991
Ftp needs /etc/passwd and /etc/groups (Does SunOS really use /etc/groups
instead of /etc/group? Interesting.) so that when it runs /bin/ls for the
"dir" command, ls can look up UID's and GID's and display the owners of the
files being listed.
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