On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:49:39AM -0600, Ryan Patterson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 02:53:26AM -0600, Brion Hase wrote: > > > > Can anyone offer suggestions for a good, secure FTP server which provides > > bandwidth limiting, multiple domain support and a separate password > > file/authentication for itself? I am currently using an old version of the > > ncFTPd (e.g a version prior to the licensing change for .orgs).
> vsftpd is pretty much the best ftp daemon I've ever found. > > http://vsftpd.beasts.org I tend to avoid deploying ftp at all, in favor of a combination of BitTorrent (I sent out 30GB of KNOPPIX's 2003-11-19 disk last time I had it up!) and making my web server pull double duty. That said, this document is getting a bit old, but provides another vote for vsftpd as well as a good survey of what (at the time it was written) was good and what was to be avoided, and why: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/ftp-daemons.html --Joe
