From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 12 21:34: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE2F37B40A for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f8D4XkJ26074; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:33:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:33:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200109130433.f8D4XkJ26074@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: anonymous-ftp cracked In-Reply-To: <001501c13c0c$7d077780$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <20010912211632.A65756@hades.hell.gr> <001501c13c0c$7d077780$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> 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 < 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message