On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:21:14PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> writes: > > > 2) The '-a' parameter seems to be used for other things by BSD ftpd: > > > > -a Give anonymous an other login-name (anonymous and ftpd will > > still > > work). > > > > Do we have some parameter confusion here? > > The '-a' parameter seems particular troublesome. The above was actually > from my Debian system. > > On Solaris it is: > > -a Enables use of the ftpaccess(4) file. > > On FreeBSD [1] it is: > > -a When -D is specified, accept connections only on the specified > address. > > And on InetUtils it is: > > -a, --auth=[AUTH] Use AUTH for authentication, it can be: > > I think InetUtils is the same as Heimdal and MIT Kerberos though. > > Sigh. This is just an observation, I'm not arguing InetUtils should > change its behaviour.
I'd like to add that OpenBSD's ftpd does not have an -a switch. -- Michal Mazurek
