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Date:      13 Sep 2001 11:43:28 -0400
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: anonymous-ftp cracked
Message-ID:  <x7u1y7rt9b.fsf@onceler.kciLink.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010912211632.A65756@hades.hell.gr>
References:  <20010912174347.Q1009-100000@pukruppa.de> <20010912211632.A65756@hades.hell.gr>

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>>>>> "GK" == Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> writes:

GK> Another common thing done in writable incoming/ directories is to create a
GK> file of fixed size, say 100 Mb, and use vnconfig to mount this file as the
GK> incoming/ directory of an FTP server.  Then there's only about 100 Mb of
GK> space available in your incoming/ and nobody can store tons of data in there,
GK> wasting your disk space until disks are full.

Man, that's a cool idea.  I never even thought of that.  Kind of like
a poor man's dedicated upload partition.

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