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FTP support in NDN/DOS (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 29.06.2009, 16:33

> > time it was able to show the contents!?! This is a slightly
> "unexpected"
> > behavior.
>
> I think this has nothing to do with the FTP.INI editing.
> Probably the directory parsing has failed.
> CTRL-R to reread the directory probably would have also solved the
> problem.

The main problem is not that it did show an empty directory first, the main - security - problem is that NDN obviously caches userid + password and still remembers them even after I deleted the entry in ftp.ini.

Admittedly one can argue that the FTP protocol is inherently insecure and therefore this unwanted "restoration" of sensible data isn't such an issue, but still...

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MS-DOS forever!

Complete thread:

• FTP support in NDN/DOS - ho1459, 27.06.2009, 12:27 (Announce)
  • FTP support in NDN/DOS - Laaca, 28.06.2009, 22:51
    • FTP support in NDN/DOS - ho1459, 29.06.2009, 15:30
      • FTP support in NDN/DOS - Laaca, 30.06.2009, 07:32
        • FTP support in NDN/DOS - ho1459, 30.06.2009, 14:38
          • FTP support in NDN/DOS - Laaca, 30.06.2009, 22:58
            • FTP support in NDN/DOS - ho1459, 02.07.2009, 11:04
  • FTP support in NDN/DOS - Rugxulo, 29.06.2009, 04:19
    • FTP support in NDN/DOS - ho1459, 29.06.2009, 15:33
  • FTP support in NDN/DOS - Japheth, 29.06.2009, 06:17
    • FTP support in NDN/DOS - ho1459, 29.06.2009, 15:42
      • FTP support in NDN/DOS - Japheth, 29.06.2009, 16:33
        • FTP support in NDN/DOS - ho1459, 29.06.2009, 17:40
      • FTP support in NDN/DOS - Japheth, 30.06.2009, 07:31
        • FTP support in NDN/DOS - ho1459, 30.06.2009, 15:05
          • FTP support in NDN/DOS - Japheth, 30.06.2009, 17:33
            • FTP support in NDN/DOS - ho1459, 30.06.2009, 18:50