Re: PASSV (passive mode) FTP through routers/firewalls

[Kevin Steves <stevesk () sweden hp com>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Riley, Larry wrote:
: I found some information indicating that in order to enable passive FTP on
: our server, we would have to give world write permissions to the
: pseudo-device /dev/tcp.  This is apparently an artifact of Solaris

My experience has been if /dev/tcp (or /devices/pseudo/clone@0:tcp) is
not mode 666, as well as other pseudo devices, daemons run as non-root
will fail or exhibit strange errors (for example accept() returning
EACCES at certain times).

Look at exceptions.h in Casper Dik's fix-modes.