Subj : Re: computers
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tenser
Date : Sun Jul 21 2024 12:46:58

On 20 Jul 2024 at 08:30a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF> -=> tenser wrote to Nightfox <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  te> We had that before the web; people ran public anonymous FTP
 pF>  te> servers running at many, if not most, sites well before the
 pF>  te> web was a thing.  It was common to create directories for
 pF>  te> users so that they could drop things into that part of the
 pF>  te> filesystem exposed to anon FTP; lots of stuff got shared that
 pF>  te> way.
 pF> 
 pF> Some of them were even intentional! I remember inheriting an FTP site
 pF> when I came into a company that was used for customer file transfer with
 pF> user/pass.

Ha!  Yeah.  We used to set up an "incoming" directory that
was world-writeable; eventually that turned out to be a bad
idea for this very reason.  This changed to having an
"incoming" directory that was mode 751 (drwxr-x--x), so that
the anonymous FTP user could `chdir` into it.  Then we'd
create a writeable directory with some obscure name under
that, and share it with whoever wanted to send us stuff.  As
long as those directory names were hard to guess, it worked
pretty well.

Though there was the time I found an Amiga warez site on
an FTP server at Bell Labs.  I let Ches know and he fixed
it.  Fun fun fun.

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