From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2KNxo46015093 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:59:51 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDAKk-0007hQ-9G for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:59:50 +0000 Received: (qmail 5902 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2005 18:56:08 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 20 Mar 2005 18:56:08 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/ftp VS /home/ftp Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:00:13 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050320234905.77953d16@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050320234905.77953d16@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: , , List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503201900.13136.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: a6fe8dd7-0980-47a4-9ec7-e77f5cf091c7 X-Archives-Hash: 34b25b1802f1d895878f73fec64d209f On Sunday 20 March 2005 06:49 pm, Gustavo Adolfo Silva Ribeiro Felisberto wrote: > Right now ftpd builds create /home/ftp directory as this will be the > home of the anonymous account home. One user opened a bug and he says > that the proper place would be /var/ftp to go with /var/www . What do > you guys think? this would probably have to go through base-system since the ftp user is contained within the passwd file from baselayout ... that said, i'd be against /var/ftp versus /home/ftp as the default -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list