zhaoqifa added the comment: Sorry for replying so late. "1) Will the above change have any security implications." ---It does not seem to me either.
"2) On Ubuntu, I am unable to setup a directory based (ACL'ed) anonymous ftp server. The option is either anonymous from ftp root (/) which will map to my operating system folder (/srv/ftp) or non-anonymous. I wonder how your server is configured to allow anonymous from a particular point onwards." ---I configured proftpd like this: <Limit WRITE DIRS> DenyAll </Limit> <Directory /home/*> <Limit DIRS LIST NLIST> AllowAll </Limit> </Directory> And get message as bellow when login anonymous: lftp perf00:~> cd /home cd: Access failed: 550 /home: No such file or directory lftp perf00:~> cd /home/work cd ok, cwd=/home/work lftp perf00:/home/work> cd /home/work/test cd ok, cwd=/home/work/test lftp perf00:/home/work/test> ls drwxrwxr-x 8 work work 4096 Jun 15 2011 pb ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17967> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com