Re: XForms: ftp upload : server error

Tristan Savatier (tristan@mpegtv.com)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:41:11 -0800

To subscribers of the xforms list from Tristan Savatier <tristan@mpegtv.com> :

T.C. Zhao wrote:

> all my incoming ftp directories got filled hundreds of
> megabytes of porn and pirated software a while ago.

That happened to us too. robots sniff writable directory
in public fpt sites.

Two solutions to the problem:

1) remove all writable directory (e.g. incoming) or make them
non-writable.

or

2) create a "private" directory, not readable and non writable.
In this directory, create an incomming (writable) directory
give it a name different from incomming, that only you and
the other party knows. That's what we do.

-t
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