On Mon, 25 May 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:
Since a publicly accessible incoming dir on ftp.suse.com would quickly fill with warez and porn, perhaps interested members of this mailing list could contact someone at SuSE about getting limited access passwords when they would like to post something to the ftp...
I favor the Roach Motel approach. Incoming has write only permissions for anonymous ftp: drw--w--w- ftp users ......... Then the contrib directory itself has read only privileges. This way warez and porn check in but they can't check out! The contrib admnistrator takes the good stuff and moves it to contrib and deletes the rest. Dwight -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e