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- From: drector@math.uci.edu (David Rector)
- Subject: Re: anonymous FTP checklist
- Nntp-Posting-Host: math.uci.edu
- Message-ID: <drector.722195714@math.uci.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Keywords: anon FTP
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- References: <francis.722155745@monod>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:07:33 GMT
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- francis@monod.Biol.McGill.CA (Francis Ouellette) writes:
-
- >Dear csm readers,
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- >I have just installed anon ftp on my machine, and I was wonderring if
- >there is a checklist somewhere of things that have to be checked for
- >me to assure myself that everything is OK from a security point of
- >view.
-
- >Any pointers would be most appreciated,
-
- >regards to all,
-
- >francis
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-
- >--
- >| B.F. Francis Ouellette
- >| manager, yeast chromosome I project
- >| dept of biology, McGill university, Montreal, Qc, Canada
- >| francis@monod.biol.mcgill.ca
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- If you find it necessary to have an "incoming" directory, that is a
- directory with write privileges, be sure to check it regularly for
- unwanted material, or you might find yourself playing host to an
- unwanted---or even illegal---bulletin board. A favorite trick of
- bb creators is to hide their files from the ls command by prefixing the
- file names with periods or other unprintable characters. Use the
- -a option to ls, or use du, to search for unwanted files.
-
- I need hardly add that I am a recent victim of this scam. I forgot
- about the -a option.
-
-
- --
- David L. Rector drector@math.uci.edu
- Dept. of Math. U. C. Irvine, Irvine CA 92717
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