Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!hsdndev!cmcl2!uupsi!sunic!ericom!mvsun.ericsson.se!rom From: rom@mvsun.ericsson.se (Robert Malmgren TK/DG) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: reversing an address Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 09:22:39 GMT References: <1991Mar4.172300.10225@unhd.unh.edu> Sender: news@ericsson.se Distribution: comp Organization: Ericsson Lines: 21 rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) writes: >Anyway, are there better ways to find out where a ftp-er was coming from? >By the way- is the password typed by anonymous ftp-ers actually stored >anywhere by unmodified ftpd programs? Or is the "type user@host for >password" just sent to the bit bucket? The ftpd server as distributed with 4.2BSD just ignores what the anonymous ftp:er writes for password. Several people has made enhancements to the code to force a DNS address as password which in turn are checked up and saved in a database. One of these changed ftpd can be found at funic.funet.fi if you are interested in checking it out. >-Roger -- Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Malmgren ! Phone: +46 8 7197937 ! Internet: rom@miranda.ericsson.se MV/ETX/TK/DG ! Fax : +46 8 7196443 ! UUCP: ..uunet!mvsun.ericsson.se!rom Ericsson Telecom ! Home : +46 8 933733 ! SUNET : MINDA::ROBERT