From 446f7c1ec54e06b5da2e890e0cd8fbd7308322c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20Lyson=C4=9Bk?= Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 16:33:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 46/59] vsftpd.conf: Refer to the man page regarding the ascii_* options --- vsftpd.conf | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/vsftpd.conf b/vsftpd.conf index 4626c1b..e70bc6d 100644 --- a/vsftpd.conf +++ b/vsftpd.conf @@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ xferlog_std_format=YES # # By default the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact ignore # the request. Turn on the below options to have the server actually do ASCII -# mangling on files when in ASCII mode. +# mangling on files when in ASCII mode. The vsftpd.conf(5) man page explains +# the behaviour when these options are disabled. # Beware that on some FTP servers, ASCII support allows a denial of service # attack (DoS) via the command "SIZE /big/file" in ASCII mode. vsftpd # predicted this attack and has always been safe, reporting the size of the -- 2.14.4