On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:51:29PM +0900, Dylan Cuthbert wrote: > Hi there, > > I've set up the ftp server with inetutils on win2k, but I get a strange > security hole. > > I've set permissions so that only "Administrators" can access the cygwin > directories. The home directories are only accessible by their respective > users and /bin is Everyone and read-only. > > However, after setting this up and rebooting the machine once, if I ftp in > as a regular user I can access all the administrator priviledge directories > (in read/write mode!) with no problem at all. Is this a known problem and > is there a way to get it to work securely? Surely the ftp daemon should > switch its user to the id of the person logging in?
Check if your /etc/group is setup correctly. If the group of the user doesn't exist, setgid() falls back to the admins group currently. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
