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francis@monod.Biol.McGill.CA (Francis Ouellette) writes:

>Dear csm readers,

>I have just installed anon ftp on my machine, and I was wonderring if
>there is a checklist somewhere of things that have to be checked for
>me to assure myself that everything is OK from a security point of
>view.

>Any pointers would be most appreciated,

>regards to all,

>francis


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>| B.F. Francis Ouellette  
>| manager, yeast chromosome I project
>| dept of biology, McGill university, Montreal, Qc, Canada
>| francis@monod.biol.mcgill.ca

If you find it necessary to have an "incoming" directory, that is a
directory with write privileges, be sure to check it regularly for
unwanted material, or you might find yourself playing host to an
unwanted---or even illegal---bulletin board.  A favorite trick of
bb creators is to hide their files from the ls command by prefixing the
file names with periods or other unprintable characters.  Use the
-a option to ls, or use du, to search for unwanted files.

I need hardly add that I am a recent victim of this scam.  I forgot
about the -a option.


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David L. Rector				drector@math.uci.edu
Dept. of Math.				U. C. Irvine, Irvine CA 92717