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Tibor Pittich wrote:
> hello
>
> i would like again open discussion about $subj.
>
> in fact, we have in mandrake distro started from 8.0 kerberized telnet
> and ftp services. it is ok, for kerberized networks, but i think that
> this isn't optimal for most of mandrake servers..
>
> my general argument, why these packages could be replaced with non
> kerberized versions is that these kerberized services don't have pam
> support and this is general inconsistency in fully pam-ified distro, as
> mandrake is.
>
> i nominate for non kerberized ftp client my likemftp package which is in
> contrib. this is solid ftp client, which is default client into netbsd
> distribution
> i don't know, what telnet daemons is available with pam functionality,
> but i hope that "only one" must exists :)
>

For ftp, proftpd (server with pam support) and ncftp (much better client
with no kerberos support) are both in main.

All telnet server-side stuff should IMHO go in contrib, along with
uw-imap (too insecure, too slow) ;-).

Buchan

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