conf/21994: Config of Anonftp (at install) always creates 'incoming'

[Ceri Davies]

The following reply was made to PR conf/21994; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri Davies <ceri at FreeBSD.org>
To: gad at eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: conf/21994: Config of Anonftp (at install) always creates 'incoming'
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:19:44 +0000

 On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 04:35:45PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
 
 > 	During the installation process, one has the option of enabling
 > 	anonymous FTP.  I do want anonymous FTP, but I never want to
 > 	create an 'incoming' (world writable) directory.  In the screen
 > 	for "Anonymous FTP configuration", there is a field called
 > 	"Upload subdirectory" which defaults to "incoming".  I delete
 > 	the word "incoming", leaving a null field.  This seems like a
 > 	logical way to say that I don't want ANY upload directory.
 > 	However, the install process still creates ~ftp/incoming, and
 > 	makes it world-writable.
 
 This is still a problem, despite the help text on this screen
 suggesting that leaving the field blank is ok.\
 
 Where do you suggest that the FTP user's home directory is set to
 instead?  /var/empty perhaps?
 
 Ceri