Re: High ranking lusers

[Henry Hertz Hobbit <hhhobbit () cs weber edu>]

On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Chip Christian wrote:

> I like the fact that the Big Boss wants to put ftp in the
> middle of a suid script...  Does wonders for local file
> permissions.

That's okay. he can "!sh" out to a shell and chown and chgrp
them back to the appropriate user and group. ;^)

Seriously though, why don't they create an ftp group, then

chgrp ftp ftp
chmod 550 ftp

That way anybody who wants to ftp has to be in the ftp group.
If on older BSD system, one more step to set group first, but
better than SUID script. I guess what I am saying is that there
are always alternatives. This is just one of them, and I am NOT
saying it is the BEST one. I am sure others can think of other
alternatives here.

HHH