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Article #126Re: Cuervo, I disagree: ShareSniffer Released
From: John Navas
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 06:30
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 06:30
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In <QDkm6.27763$5M5.1725199@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>,
rockhead.com@bigbox.wan.vpn (Paul Newhouse) wrote:
>In article <dvjj9t8d7j5ji4p021fsh4qphrsnrm8hvq@4ax.com>,
> rtoledo@gte.net writes:
>> this reminds me of a once popular service bought out by Lycos and now
>> very crappy service called FTPsearch guess how it finds files in
>> thousands of FTP servers, it scans all these servers and even scans
>> hidden folders that a regular user would not usually find unless they
>> know how to use unix systems
>Hidden "folders" on unix!? Really! Do you mean unix or some application
>that runs on unix, like Samba?
You can have hidden folders on UNIX (and it's clones) by turning off
read permission in the parent directory. That's can't be defeated
without either a brute force attack or some sort of exploit.
--
Best regards,
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>
CABLE MODEM/DSL GUIDE: <http://Cable-DSL.home.att.net/>
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