[HECnet] PyDECnet File Transfer Support?

[Mark J. Blair]

> On Dec 22, 2021, at 1:40 PM, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
> 
> Please give us (pyDECnet users) a way to disable it - pyDECnet runs as
> root and I'm not really comfortable having it become a program that can
> remotely read or write files on my system.

Agreed! It seems like something that should be an optionally-enabled feature, and something that can't serve anything outside of a specified directory tree (security bugs notwithstanding). Write-only and read-only directories would be helpful, though that may come for free just by using host filesystem permissions.

Hmm, I do have pyDECnet running as root here at home. I'll look into changing that. ISTR that I set it up to run under a non-root account at work, but it'll be 2022 before I can easily verify that.

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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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