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Date:      Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:23:48 -0500 (CDT)
From:      James Wyatt <jwyatt@RWSystems.net>
To:        Marcel Mason <mmasonb208@rogers.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Annonymous FTP permissions - no execute
Message-ID:  <20020821192131.D15077-100000@kasie.rwsystems.net>
In-Reply-To: <000701c2496c$479e7da0$054b2a18@mdmh8ueyqj8ff4>

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We put the incoming directory as a separate filesystem. That way you can
just mount it with the "noexec" option and the problem goes away. I don't
think it stops them from saying "sh scriptfile" if there is an interpreter
line sh, ksh, awk, or perl in the path, though. HTH - Jy@

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Marcel Mason wrote:
> I would like to allow annonymous users to upload files to FreeBSD 4.4
> server.
>
> The default install puts ftp in /var/ftp, I would like annonymous users to
> be able to upload files to /var/ftp/pub/incoming but not have execute
> permissions on that directory. Getting the (world) permissions of rw- is not
> difficult however when they are set like that no directory listing is
> available - unless I am doing something wrong - until I use rwx however I am
> not really interested in giving annonymous users the ability to upload
> scripts and run them.
>
> Is there any way (other than constant monitoring) to prevent this type of
> folder from becoming a warez haven?
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> M


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