[MBT] new entry in pkg proftpd-common "Creating directories may be annoying..."

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Date: 2002-07-09 09:19:03+02	Author: Jacek Konieczny (Jajcus) <jajcus at bnet.pl> 
Title:         Creating directories may be annoying...
Ticket ID:     #265
Ticket URL:    http://bugs.pld.org.pl/?bug=265
Package:       proftpd-common-0:1.2.5rc1-5
Distribution:  PLD-Ra.main
Category:      improve request
Current state: opened
Text:

>After installing proftpd-common package, following >directories are created:
>
>/home/ftp/pub
>/home/ftp/pub/Incoming
>
>Its ok, but...
Not quite OK. "pub" directory is a legacy thing and is not needed for most modern FTP servers, including ProFTPD

>All upgrades of proftpd (via apt) results in:
>Changing ownership of pub directory to root.root
This is bug. Administrator should be able to set the owner and access modes to this directory.

>- disallowing my ftp user writing in /home/ftp/pub
User "ftp" should never be able to write to /home/ftp/pub!
This uid is used for anonymous access and should have _very_limited_ access rights. But you probably mean other ftp user.

>Creating completly unnecessary directory "Incoming" (yeah, >its used in example config, but its hashed out anyway)
I do also thing, that this directory should be created by an administrator, if needed.

>- ownership of /home/ftp/pub and any other dirs should not >be changed
>- Incoming should not be created durring upgrade (only on >first install, or even never) 
IMHO no directories in /home/ftp should be created by default. Maybe some default welcome message could be placed there, but it doesn't seem neccessery neither.