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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