I got sick of (presumably) warez people probing my anonymous ftp site and dropping all kinds of hard-to-delete trash in incoming, so I patched my ftpd to only allow directories to start with alphanumerics. There's probably a better solution, but this works for me so I figure'd I'd share.
Combining this with a umask that doesn't allow reading uploaded files keeps things reasonably well in hand. --Aaron Index: ftpd.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c,v retrieving revision 1.62.2.15 diff -u -r1.62.2.15 ftpd.c --- ftpd.c 2001/12/18 18:35:55 1.62.2.15 +++ ftpd.c 2002/01/19 09:47:42 @@ -2216,6 +2216,12 @@ { LOGCMD("mkdir", name); + + if (!isalnum(*name)) { + reply(521, "Bite me."); + return; + } + if (mkdir(name, 0777) < 0) perror_reply(550, name); else To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message