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[robinturner]

I've just had a load of e-mails from students complaining that they couldn't upload their essays. Puzzled, I go to the course website and upload something - no problem. Sometime later, I get an idea.

[robin@lists]$ cd public_html/102/
[robin@lists 102]$ ls -l 
[robin@lists 102]$ drwxr-xr-x   3 robin    robin        4096 Jul 26  2003 upload

As Homer would say, "Doh!"

Comments

[hyperina.livejournal.com]

that's dangerous anyway you should have an incoming directory that requires a working email address and a password where they can ftp stuff. a world-writeable directory in public_html... yeesh.

[solri.livejournal.com]

It does require a password - I'm using htaccess.

[sebab.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha whoooops :)