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Re: running ftpd other than root



At 05:34 PM 11/4/00 -0600, you wrote:
Is it possible, for securities sake to run wu-ftp as another user other
than root?  I can't find any info on this.  Thanks!

Yes, absolutely... but any ftp daemon must be started as root to open ports below 1024. All of the popular ones drop to a designated ftp user for normal running though.

Users would have to connect to ftp://foo.blag:12345/ where 12345 is your ftp port.


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Criggie



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