Subject: Problem with the autogroup command

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 11:53:49 GMT

Hello !

I posted the following message 2 weeks ago and did not receive any answer. 
So I try again !
If people had the same kind of problem with other OS than OSF 3.2, their 
advices are also welcome.

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I just installed the WU-FTPD 2.4 server on a Dec Alpha / OSF 3.2. It works 
fine but I have a problem with the 'autogroup' command : I cannot make files 
or sub directories readable only by anonymous users of any specific class. 
On the contrary, all users can read and get any file, whatever the group and 
class they (user and file) belong to.

I checked the following points :
- the ftpaccess file is read by the server (the message and limit commands 
it contains are correctly processed),
- the classes are correctly assigned to the users (which was checked with a 
class-limited login message), 
- the ls -al command produces correct results (names and not figures, and 
groups corresponding to those defined in the group file and 'autogroup' 
command).

Could somebody help me ?

Many thanks.
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From: Darci Chapman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 09:06:04 -0700

[this is only peripherally related to wu-ftpd and i have to hope that
someone on this list has had to something similar before and can point
me in the right direction]

After much beating of chest and pulling of hair (and possibly additional
graying of same), I gave up on getting the BSDI shared-lib version of ls
working under the ftpaccess/group scenario. (yeah, yeah, I went back and
read over a month's worth of wu-ftpd email, including the how-to thingie,
AND the ORA Managing Internet Services and could not, would not get ls
working. As much as I *love* tinkering with Unix I don't have the time
on this particular project).

Soooo, I got the GNU version of ls, compiled/linked it statically with gcc,
slapped it into the ~/bin directory of my choice and wowie-zowie, I got
a directory listing under ftpd on the first try. 

Unfortunately (you knew this was coming, right?), all the owner/groups
show up as numbers (never mind that passwd and group files are in the
right place with the correct entries) AND all the timestamps on the files
show up in GMT instead of PDT. ARGH! The GNU ls does not show these symptoms
under a Unix shell. What did I do wrong!? I read the README that came
with the fileutils distribution but not a word is mentioned about TZ
issues under BSDI. 

HELP! I'm soooo close, I can taste it :-)

advTHANKSance,

...dlc...

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