Hiding dot files with ftpd

[Kyrre Nygard]

At 12:25 04.06.2006, Daniel A. Akulenok wrote:
>On Sun, June 4, 2006 08:49, Lawrence Horvath wrote:
> > On 6/3/06, Daniel A. Akulenok <alive at dienub.org> wrote:
> >> On Sat, June 3, 2006 22:57, Kyrre Nygard wrote:
> >> >
> >> > What's up all?
> >> >
> >> > Just wondering if it's possible to hide dot files somehow
> >> > with FreeBSD's default ftpd when I invoke it from inetd?
> >> >
> >> > ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l
> >> > ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Kyrre
> >> >
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> >> Hi Kyrre,
> >> Files prepended with dots in UNIX operating systems usually symoblize a
> >> file which is not shown to the user on a regular basis because the user
> >> will actually not _need_ to know of it's prescense in daily use.
> >> Therefore, it is entirely up to the FTP client of the user if files
> >> prepended with dots are shown or not.
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> >
> > Is there a way to get the ftp server to not list the dot prepended
> > files? if say you REALLY don't want the client to see the files, can
> > you get the server to not send it in a "list" reply? and by the same
> > means could you get the server to not list dirs as well?(that was just
> > being my curiosity)
> >
> > --
> > -Lawrence
> >
>As far as I know, you can only achieve that by hacking the ftpd itself. If
>you want users to only be able to see a certain set of files, you should
>create a user with ftproot in an empty directory which only contains the
>files they are allowed to see/use.


Hello guys!

Well, I was just curious, since the option to hide dot files is widely
available in most FTP daemons, like vsftpd:

hide_file=.*

However, it seems, not in FreeBSD's default ftpd?

All the best,
Kyrre