Re: root access and dselect | ftp

[kotsya@u.washington.edu (David Stern)]

On 25 Feb 1998 22:47:23 +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> kotsya@u.washington.edu (David Stern) writes:
> > [..]
> > This is why I was asking about dselect | ftp, because if I'm root, and 
> > I'm running ftp via dselect, then isn't this exactly what you're 
> > telling me not to do?
> 
> Yes, but there is no known way to force the ftpclient to do such
> things. The client doesn't accept any commands and any data it gets is,
> well, data, so it is not executed, just written to disk.

Initially I thought that ftpd accepted commands, but now that I think 
about it a little more, I suppose it accepts data.  (at least for ftp 
clients, running ftpd in server mode on the net might be a different 
animal)

Running an ftp client as root seems to be an exception to the rule 
about not running as root.

Thanks for the clarification. :-)

p.s.: I won't make personal replies until my headers are up to snuff, 
which I'm working on.
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