On 06/02/2018 01:40 AM, Paul Rogers wrote:
So I was following the book. It's misleading. It needs some revisions!
Apparently the external reference in vfs-findlibs.sh dropped out in the 1.1
version. I had openssl-1.1 installed, then built 1.0 with the versioning as
instructed. Because of the versioning my first attempt at vsftpd couldn't find
SSL_library_init. So the book's instructions only work if one installs 1.0
without versioning as instructed. The book should say so.
Clearly 1.1 is preferred, so the book's instructions for vsftpd should have the
fix--I used and recommend just a simple sed rather than the patch. vsftpd
should have the choice of one or the other as prereqs and instructions for
installing either. And if you want to keep versioning, vsf-findlibs.sh still
needs to be fixed for it.
Paul,
Your problem was not clear to me. I think what you are doing is:
echo "#define VSF_BUILD_SSL" >> builddefs.h
make
We don't normally test with the define as that is not in the mainline
instructions, but only in Command Explanations as an optional thing to do.
Can you share the patch for vsftpd that you found?
OTOH, perhaps we should just remove vsftpd from the book. I can't get
to the url in the book right now and the last update to the package is
dated July 2015. It does not appear to be maintained.
In addition ftp seems to have become be a relatively unused protocol.
Uploads would generally be via scp and downloads either scp or http(s).
About the only thing I can see using ftp server for is for anonymous
uploads and that would be unusual/dangerous. In addition that could be
done via http if really needed.
-- Bruce
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