I want to disable "put" command on anonymous ftp

andrew at bishop.dropbear.id.au andrew at bishop.dropbear.id.au
Wed Sep 19 16:24:29 EST 2001


On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Gartside, Andrew wrote:

> I have set up my machine to do anonymous ftp. I would like to disable the
> "put" function
> for security. None of the copious documentation I've read mentions how to do
> this, does
> anyone know, please?

Just make sure all the directories accessable through anon ftp are not
writable.
e.g. chmod -R go-w /var/ftp

Andrew





More information about the linux mailing list