Re: Re: Bad Advise

[pwh () bradley bradley edu (Pete Hartman)]

> Christopher W. Klaus wrote:
> % Here is some advise from Sun that I highly recommend you DO NOT DO.
> %           Make the home directory owned by ``ftp'' and unwritable
> %           by anyone. 
> % I highly recommend you change that to owned by ``root''.  
> I was thinking about ownership of the whole ftp-tree by user `nobody'. Are
> there any benefits to using `root' instead of `nobody'?

Seems that since NFS access defaults to "nobody" that this is probably
the most insecure possible permission if someone can get nfs access to
the tree.