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by mananaysiempre 1828 days ago
> This smells like a security vulnerability for most setups.

Yes, but if you look around on some old FTP servers (like on the few still-extant mirror networks) you’ll find that some do actually let you CWD to the system /, and sometimes they even drop you there by default (so you have to CWD pub or whatever to get at the things you actually want).