From 87d654b4a49cf0b409a82cd4fb373217b9a81977 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: yar Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:37:18 +0000 Subject: Reflect in the ftpd(8) manpage the fact that ASCII SIZE requests against large files will be denied. MFC after: 10 days --- libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'libexec') diff --git a/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8 b/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8 index 4088f2b..4a44beb 100644 --- a/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8 +++ b/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8 @@ -282,6 +282,9 @@ are recognized, but not implemented. MDTM and SIZE are not specified in RFC 959, but will appear in the next updated FTP RFC. +To avoid possible denial-of-service attacks, SIZE requests against +files larger than 10240 bytes will be denied if the current transfer +type is ASCII. .Pp The ftp server will abort an active file transfer only when the ABOR -- cgit v1.1