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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:39:35 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "Frank W. Miller" <fwmiller@macalpine.cornfed.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        fwmiller@macalpine.cornfed.com (Frank W. Miller)
Subject:   Re: ftpd question
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010216173625.04a9b2e0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200102160050.TAA21074@macalpine.cornfed.com>

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Interesting.... A fellow running a Win2K server here in town
reported that his Internet connection had slowed to a crawl.
Upon investigation, it was discovered that someone had dumped
about 1 GB of files into a writable public directory via
anonymous FTP. 

Someone's obviously scanning for writable anonymous FTP
servers and pulling this schoolyard prank. I wonder what they
hope to accomplish, other than tying up bandwidth and disk
space until someone notices?

--Brett

At 05:50 PM 2/15/2001, Frank W. Miller wrote:
  
>This is probably a simple question but I'm a newbie at sys admin so...
>I've had some people logging into my ftp server and dumping files
>lately.  Is there a way to prevent anonymous users from uploading
>files while still allowing regular users to upload?  Please respond
>via email to fwmiller@cornfed.com.
>
>Thanks,
>FM
>
>--
>Frank W. Miller
>Cornfed Systems Inc
>www.cornfed.com
>
>
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