Re: My funny ftp...

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Ian Wright wrote:
>
> sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
>
> Hi Baz,
>
> I just meant directories, files and so forth. I'm no expert on this but I
> was having problems getting at my files from a windows box on the network
> and a discovered that almost every part of linux seems to have its own set
> of permissions which have to be adjusted to either give or deny access or
> set passwords etc. Very confusing at first until I found that most of them
> seemed to default to read-only.
>

I`ve got to check the file permissions again on my flatmates machine,
however the strange thing is that everything worked perfectly before we
upgraded wu-ftp on that machine (my box is also running the new version,
yet functions fine).
Hosts.allow and .deny are similar on both machines too.

Is there anything else that controls access (for normal users, I know
root can`t use remote services like telnet and ftp as standard)?

Cheers, Baz.

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