[ale] ftp daemon

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

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On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, David Hamm wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:52:29 -0400 (EDT)
> From: David Hamm <dhamm at itserve.com>
> To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: [ale] ftp daemon
> 
> Any one seen a problme with ftpd droping users of at the root instead of their
> home dir?  We've been seeing it a lot around here.:-(

	If ftpd can't find the users home directory or they have no
permission to the home directory it will dump the user to / as last
resort... rather than just dropping the connection like a hot potatoe...
	Jeremy

    Jeremy T. Bouse - UnderGrid Network Services - www.UnderGrid.net
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