From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 8:43:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8041537B413 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:43:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFEA2E462 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:43:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f8DFhS258291; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:43:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) X-Authentication-Warning: onceler.kciLink.com: khera set sender to khera@kcilink.com using -f To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anonymous-ftp cracked References: <20010912174347.Q1009-100000@pukruppa.de> <20010912211632.A65756@hades.hell.gr> From: Vivek Khera Date: 13 Sep 2001 11:43:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20010912211632.A65756@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "GK" == Giorgos Keramidas writes: GK> Another common thing done in writable incoming/ directories is to create a GK> file of fixed size, say 100 Mb, and use vnconfig to mount this file as the GK> incoming/ directory of an FTP server. Then there's only about 100 Mb of GK> space available in your incoming/ and nobody can store tons of data in there, GK> wasting your disk space until disks are full. Man, that's a cool idea. I never even thought of that. Kind of like a poor man's dedicated upload partition. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message