tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) (06/06/91)
About a week ago someone uploaded 9 or 10 X rated GIFs to my anonymous FTP
world-writable incoming directory. Then someone told their friends, and
word spread, until my poor machine died due to the number of incoming FTP
sessions, all downloading the GIFs.
To prevent this sort of problem I need a FTP server that gives me finer
control over how many guests can connect at one time, what times they can
connect, and that logs everything they do.
Here's what I think should be in the ultimate spiffy FTP server:
1) It should provide host based access control, allowing you to disallow
access to the server from a host or a domain. In addition, it should
allow certain hosts or domains access to directories that the rest of
the world can not access.
2) It should log everything done during an anonymous FTP session.
3) It should allow you to limit anonymous FTP access to certain times,
and kick people off if they are connected and then enter a "no
anonymous FTP" time.
4) Bonus points if it includes a built in "ls" command so you don't have
to have /bin, /lib, /dev, /etc, ...
Comments? Am I missing anything that the ultimate spiffy FTP server should
have? Are there any freely redistributable implementations that do some or
all of this?
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Tim Ramsey/system administrator/tar@math.ksu.edu/(913) 532-6750/2-7004 (FAX)
Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506-2602
"Yes, you can take an axe to the 3084..."
-- bav@ksuvm.ksu.edu, realizing the futility of CP/CMS