Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:33:50 -0700 From: "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Giorgos Keramidas" <charon@labs.gr>, "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: anonymous-ftp cracked Message-ID: <000801c13c0d$4969dac0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> In-Reply-To: <001501c13c0c$7d077780$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Yup, I had some jerk constantly fill up the filesystem of the ftp directory until I finally disabled all uploads. The ethics of some people just amazes me. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ted > Mittelstaedt > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Giorgos > >Keramidas > > > >Another common thing done in writable incoming/ directories is > to create a > >file of fixed size, say 100 Mb, and use vnconfig to mount this > file as the > >incoming/ directory of an FTP server. Then there's only about 100 Mb of > >space available in your incoming/ and nobody can store tons of > data in there, > >wasting your disk space until disks are full. > > > > Hi Uli and Giorgos, > > I've had a bit of experience with this sort of thing and I have > to say that > nobody should be running an open FTP server that allows uploading > to anyone > unless they are willing to take the time to monitor it - and I mean every > day, preferably several times a day. > > 100MB is plenty of space for some jerk to upload his collection > of Sally SpreadEagle in all her silicon glory. If that happens > your going to find every bit of outbound bandwidth you have completely > saturated. If your unlucky enough to have your FTP server at an > ISP you may find yourself fined heavily (ie: overage charges) > > Some people have a little script that runs out of cron and diffs the > output of ls against the previous run and e-mails the maintainer when new > files show up, others simply check by eye. Whatever works for > you is fine, > but don't think that you can just put out public storage for anyone to use > as they see fit and just ignore it anymore. > > > Ted Mittelstaedt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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