From owner-freebsd-security Fri Feb 16 16:39:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B329A37B4EC for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:39:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA15313; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:39:41 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010216173625.04a9b2e0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:39:35 -0700 To: "Frank W. Miller" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: ftpd question Cc: fwmiller@macalpine.cornfed.com (Frank W. Miller) In-Reply-To: <200102160050.TAA21074@macalpine.cornfed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message