FUD, fud-client

[Per Steinar Iversen]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Per Steinar Iversen wrote:
> 
> > > Well not great, but most people don't go around investigating seen state
> > > for bogus users.
> >
> > These files consume diskspace. Call fud a sufficent number of times, each
> > time with a different name and eventually these files will consume all
> > available space. Also some filesystems, like ext2/3, have performance
> > problems with directories containing huge numbers of files.
> 
> Of course they do.  So don't go around opening the seen data for users
> that don't exist! ;)
> 
> -Rob
> 
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And no access to fud over the network - that would seem to for open a very
simple DOS exploit.

-psi