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FTP support in NDN/DOS (Announce)

posted by ho1459 Homepage E-mail, Germany, 29.06.2009, 17:40

> > > 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...
Ah, I see:
When you quit NDN while having an FTP connection open the FTP data
is saved to the desktop file, and restored on restarting NDN.
On my todo list is a plan for encryption of passwords etc.
Maybe even better the complete URL in case of FTP.
But I don't know when or how... :P

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