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   Message 16,424 of 17,684   
   Janis Kracht to Arthur Hagen   
   Re: Root permissions granted to user via   
   19 Dec 08 22:16:35   
   
   From: janis@filegate.net   
      
   Arthur Hagen wrote:   
   > Thomas  wrote:   
   >> Hi Janis,   
   >>   
   >> could very well be a bug in pure-ftpd.  Did you check bugs.gentoo.org   
   >> already?  Perhaps worth a try.   
   >>   
   >> On another note, you could chmod ug+s the parent directory to have a   
   >> sticky owner/group.  This would then force every created file in it   
   >> to be owned by the sticky user/owner.   
   >   
   > Just beware that new subdirectories won't inherit the stickiness, unless   
   > you use xfs and add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf:   
   >   
   > fs.xfs.irix_sgid_inherit = 1   
      
   Think that drive is reiserfs , but have to check.. I remember making a   
   newer drive xfs, but this directory is probably on my older drive.. just   
   looked, yup it's reiser.. no big deal, I'll just disable subdirectory   
   creation.. that should do it I think .   
      
   Thanks,   
   Janis   
      
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