From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 12 11: 0:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA3737B407 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dwcjr (unknown [66.64.12.254]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E04C10F42B; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:00:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <001e01c13bb4$d1915800$fe0c4042@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: "Linh Pham" Cc: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" , References: Subject: Re: anonymous-ftp cracked Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:00:33 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well you could set it up so no anonymous writes are allowed, but that's assuming you don't need people to upload the files. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linh Pham" To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" ; Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: Re: anonymous-ftp cracked > On 2001-09-12, David W. Chapman Jr. scribbled: > > # Don't allow read access to your incoming folder. Most people will > # upload a test upload to check for speed and make sure they can > # redownload it. I usually end up with gigs of mp3's, but I > # just sort them into another directory in my collection. > > Wouldn't it be that _write_ access should be removed from the folder > rather than read access? > > To do so, remove the current files under the incoming directory and run: > > chmod -R go-w /var/ftp/incoming > > Or just delete the directory altogether. > > -- > Linh Pham > [lplist@closedsrc.org] > > // 404b - Brain not found > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message