Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv
From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Garbage showing up in my FTP areas
Message-ID: <EMV.90Mar12123730@urania.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 90 17:37:30 GMT
References: <KARL.90Mar11180312@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Sender: news@math.lsa.umich.edu
Followup-To: comp.sources.d
Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor MI.
Lines: 13
In-reply-to: karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 11 Mar 90 23:03:12 GMT

Karl,

Not meaning to criticize or anything, but if you leave
a world-writable anon FTP area available for just anyone
to drop things into & immediately retreive, you're asking
for whatever you get.

I believe I've seen modifications to ftpd (somewhere) that
make the writable area unreadable, i.e. submissions get
dropped in blind and there's no way to retreive them until
they get moved into the public area.

--Ed