On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:34 AM Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> FTP is (becoming?) a legacy protocol, and I think it may be time to > remove the ftp server from the FreeBSD base system - with the recent > security advisory for ftpd serving as a reminder. > > I've proposed adding a deprecation notice to the man page in > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26447 to start this off. There are a > number of ftp servers in ports, and if we're going to remove the base > system one we can create a port for it first, as well. > > Any comments or concerns, please follow up in the code review or in email > here. > While I may quibble over the 'legacy' tag to FTP, I do agree that ftpd isn't important enough to risk the security exposure for it (even if we don't enable it by default). There are several ftpd ports one could use. I know I'll be installing it on my systems here, but I have some special needs due to a video camera that uploads snapshots via ftp (and yes, I know that's not super secure which is why it's on it's own VLAN, jail insulated, etc). Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
