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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:33:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: anonymous-ftp cracked
Message-ID:  <200109130433.f8D4XkJ26074@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <001501c13c0c$7d077780$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
References:  <20010912211632.A65756@hades.hell.gr> <001501c13c0c$7d077780$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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<<On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:28:07 -0700, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> said:

>   I've had a bit of experience with this sort of thing and I have to say that
> nobody should be running an open FTP server that allows uploading to anyone
> unless they are willing to take the time to monitor it - and I mean every
> day, preferably several times a day.

My preference in this situation is to use one of the FTP servers which
creates files (where permitted) using a mode and uid of the
administrator's choosing.  Not much point for those lusers to upload
things when their budz can't download them.

-GAWollman


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