Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] very strange filenames in 'ftp' >> David, >> >> Curiosity.. are you running UTF-8? Cause if you aren't and the >> other individual is.... this could be the problem. ( ssh into a UTF-8 >> enabled box from one that isn't and do man man .... you'll see the >> same crap.) >> >> James
James (replying to the other post) I don't think UTF is at fault here. I don't think I use that encoding. The point is that someone outside put those wierd files there. I was able to remove some of them, only painstakingly, via rm -i, and still there are some. I noticed also that the new proftpd setup places stuff in /var/ftp/pub, my stuff was in an older place /home/ftp/pub. Removing the files (or attempting to) caused a big crash, accidentally lost /bin, /etc. Dunno how that happened, unless a file there was a symlink to something in the root filesystem. In other words, ouch. I had to reinstall. Another salient point -- the filenames inside those diretories are full of long names consisting of floating point numbers and "Randomize", like "Randomize?1.0081230592034029402291E+14" might be a sample file name. I smell an exploit. I don't get much anonymous ftp but have it there for the odd file transfer. Confirmed - nothing UTF related in my /etc/sysconfig/i18n, but admittedly, this is from the reinstall, not the contents at that time. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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