Subject: Re: DIR PROBLEM DEFINITIVE SOLUTION...

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:17:51 +0800

> 
> On Fri, 19 Jan 1996 [email-masked] wrote:
> 
> >     When I copied /etc/group to ~ftp/etc/group, everything worked fine.
> 
> Be careful doing this, especially with the ~ftp/etc/passwd file that has
> to be present to give user IDs as well as group names.  Strip these files
> to the bare minimum, REPLACE ALL ENCODED PASSWORDS WITH A *, give a bogus
> shell, etc.  List no more users or groups than absolutely have to be there
> to give an alpha name as owner and group.  Don't give away useful
> information for cracking your machine.

Yes, I knew that, and should have put in a "standard disclaimer", or spelled
out exactly what I meant by "copy".  

>>Ericw

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From: Tim Capps <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:28:56 -0800

>information for cracking your machine.

Per the docs, remove all users except "ftp" and "root", and do the above
things to those two.

Cheers,
Tim