Re: security with the ftp daemon

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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.

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