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 submonkey.net>
To: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
Cc: FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: conf/21994: Config of Anonftp (at install) always creates 'incoming'
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:39:46 +0000

 On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:31:59AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
 > On Thursday 29 December 2005 06:20 pm, Ceri Davies wrote:
 > > 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?
 > 
 > You don't need to change that directory.  That home directory still needs to 
 > exist and is where anon ftp files go.  It just needs to not create the 
 > world-writable incoming directory if that field is blank.
 
 Yes, of course.  Thanks.
 
 Ceri