"Dave C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One thing about wu-ftpd all should be aware is that is has a long record of
> exploits and security related problems.
>
> Proftpd was written because someone got sick of the continuous security
> problems wu-ftpd was causing. The last one was just few weeks ago (version
> 2.6.0)!
The good thing about ProFTPD has been the lack of security issues,
hence you don't have to go through the hassles of re-patching every
few weeks.
> The original isp that make vsd possible choose proftpd for a reason. It has
> different features that are missing in wu-ftpd:
>
> 1. Several options to restrict what an ftp user can do
> 2. It doesn't need extra libraries/external programs to perform things
> like tar/gzip on the fly.
> 3. It's the ftp daemon of choice for professional hosting companies (both
> bsd or linux based).
4. To chroot a user, you needed bin, lib, pub and etc directories,
with a copy of the C library and a few binaries. A real pain
in the arse ! ProFTPDs solution is much cleaner.
> Just some food to think about (i.e. if it ain't broke don't fix it).
Exactly.
Similarily the user utils {user,group}{add,mod,del} were re-written
for FreeVSD so that we had tight integration between the tools and
the environment. The early work used to patch shadow-utils, but
this proved to be unmanageable.
NIck.
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