Re: permissions

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hi!

On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 groggy11 mail com wrote:

> fbsd 4.4
> mc 4.5.54
>
> superuser can run mc and do "cd ftp://ftp.netscape.com"; and things work fine.
> other  users  run mc and do "cd ftp://ftp.netscape.com"; and things work fine
>  at first, the user logs in, but then is left with an empty panel (no files)
>  and the mc message "ftpfs: failed; nowhere to fallback to".

It's not related to the permissiions.  The ftp session expires because of
inactivity timeout, but ftpfs fails to detect it and inform the user
properly.  This bug is still not fixed and is unlikely to be fixed in the
next release unless somebody contributes a patch.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin