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Date:      Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:46:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Aaron Smith <aaron-fbsd@mutex.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ftpd patch that saves me a lot of hassle
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201191243580.2065-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020119122812.E909@gelatinous.com>

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if you make your incoming Write-only then they will hav elottle point in 
puting stuff there..
We do this, in several places, and have a script move the incoming stuff
elsewhere at regular intervals too.

(not that I disagree with your patch but I often mode 'dot files'
e.g. .cshrc, or even CVS "#" files


On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Aaron Smith wrote:

> I got sick of (presumably) warez people probing my anonymous ftp site and
> dropping all kinds of hard-to-delete trash in incoming, so I patched my
> ftpd to only allow directories to start with alphanumerics. There's
> probably a better solution, but this works for me so I figure'd I'd share.
> 
> Combining this with a umask that doesn't allow reading uploaded files keeps
> things reasonably well in hand.
> 
> --Aaron
> 
> 
> Index: ftpd.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.62.2.15
> diff -u -r1.62.2.15 ftpd.c
> --- ftpd.c	2001/12/18 18:35:55	1.62.2.15
> +++ ftpd.c	2002/01/19 09:47:42
> @@ -2216,6 +2216,12 @@
>  {
>  
>  	LOGCMD("mkdir", name);
> +
> +	if (!isalnum(*name)) {
> +		reply(521, "Bite me.");
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (mkdir(name, 0777) < 0)
>  		perror_reply(550, name);
>  	else
> 
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