Subject: Re: questions

From: [email-masked] (Geoff Terry Systems & Net supt 064 923677)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:32:25 +1100 (EST)

Try making the directory writable only and not readable and not executable.
That way people can ftp it up but no-one can see it and no one can run it.
Make the default umask 333 so the files end up with rrr access so that cant
be execd by anyone with shell access.

Regards Geofft

>everything seems to work fine on my Linux 2.0.28 machine running wu.ftpd
>2.4 beta 12.
>
>just one thing, how can i set up a safe incoming to allow people to upload
>to incoming.. but safe so nobody can fuq w/ it and hax0r my machine. any
>ideas.. i would appreciate it, since i would like to have an incoming dir.
>
> .%$$s.
>  `$$'  ~'! +------------------------------------------+ --  -
>   $$    ._ |         [ Liquid Insanity! ]
>  `#$.  !`$s.      [email-masked]
>   $$s._.s $$ +-------------------------------------+ -- -
>    '`~ ~'s$'  !_.+( http://turnon.netlite.com/ )+._!
>
>
>
Geoff Terry    Systems & Network Support
ACR Net        Sapphire Coast NSW 2550
Australia
Ph 064 923677  Mobile 015 668 227 Fax 064 924594