From 255a70376b8d62d046e25aa4c899557600baf693 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yaroslav Tykhiy Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:37:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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(+) diff --git a/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8 b/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8 index 4088f2b379f3..4a44beb6222c 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