Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 10:46:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> To: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FTP drop box Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980622104029.9597U-100000@voyager.dreamhaven.net>
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Greetings, This may be more of a general Unix question, but since I'm running a FreeBSD system, I thought this was a good place to start. In the shell accounts I create for my users, I've set up FTP "drop boxes", which allow users to do 2 things: 1) They can put files there that other people can FTP in and grab anonymously, so they don't have to know the user's password. 2) Outsiders can upload files to a special "incoming" directory underneath the user's FTP directory; they cannot see the contents of this directory, they can only place files there. The problem I'm running into is that when someone uploads a file, the file is owned by "ftp", and not by the user whose account it's going into, so the file doesn't count towards the user's quota. Consequently, outsiders have been abusing this by uploading huge files and directories, probably with the intent of filling up my filesystem. (Thankfully, /ftp is on its own drive.) My question is, is there a way to get the OS to force ownership on the file as soon as it's uploaded, so that outsiders cannot upload more than will fit in the user's quota? Or does anyone have a suggestion as to a better method of implementing these drop boxes than what I'm currently doing? Thanks in advance, Bryce ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Stop smirking, Number 1." -- J.L. Picard * * "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop!" -- EMH Program, ST:FC * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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