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Date:      Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:02:07 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/ftpd ftpcmd.y ftpd.8 
Message-ID:  <12022.987451327@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:38:17 PDT." <20010416123816.A99632@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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In message <20010416123816.A99632@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:59:30PM -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>   Modified files:
>>     libexec/ftpd         ftpcmd.y ftpd.8 
>>   Log:
>>   Add the "SITE MD5 filename" facility.
>
>*sigh*.  I see you committed this even with the strong disagreement about
>the feature in -arch.  I guess -arch discussions don't matter for much.
>So next time I want to commit something, I'll just dispense with any
>discussion there and I'll hold this commit up as the example I'm
>following.

I saw a couple of people saying it wasn't useful (to which our normal
reaction is "don't use it then") but I didn't see anybody showing
any harm.

>This is especially cute since it is disabled for the most common usage
>you said it was for.  Nor have you done anything to rate limit the DoS
>this opens up.

This doesn't open any DoS as long as it isn't available in anon mode.

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