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Re: FTP problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Brown)
Mon Jul 22 03:15:50 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: alan@papaioea.manawatu.gen.nz (Alan Brown)
Date: 21 Jul 1996 16:07:26 +1200
In article <199607102312.TAA12202@gw1.matthews.com>,
Paul Matthews <paul@matthews.com> wrote:
>2. The permissions on your /incoming directory do not allow
>writing. I thought I would upload a copy of the wu-ftpd beta, but I
>could not. If this is not intentional, you might want to chmod 0666 on
>/incoming. Of course, you may not want uploads.
DON'T DO THIS!!!!!
If you set the incoming directory 0666, people can read out of as well as
write to it. This make you very likely to be the next waypoint for the
warez community.
Set it 622 instead.
AB
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