I'm running a script as root which drops privileges while fetching files
using ftp(1) with anonymous login enabled:
# doas -u unpriv ftp -a URL
... and was surprised to see the following error:
ftp: /root/.netrc: Permission denied
I'm not sure if the .netrc file should be considered when anonymous
login is enabled. If not, here's a patch:
Index: util.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/ftp/util.c,v
retrieving revision 1.81
diff -u -p -r1.81 util.c
--- util.c 20 Aug 2016 20:18:42 -0000 1.81
+++ util.c 3 Jan 2017 20:19:16 -0000
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ ftp_login(const char *host, char *user,
struct passwd *pw;
#ifndef SMALL
- if (user == NULL) {
+ if (user == NULL && !anonftp) {
if (ruserpass(host, &user, &pass, &acctname) < 0) {
code = -1;
return (0);
