On 06.09.2005, at 00:37, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:In fact, it seems people prefer NetBSD's ftpd, which appears to be :based on lukemftpd. So why not kill off our ftpd and settle on :moving lukemftpd into our libexec/ftpd, a-la NetBSD?No, we are not putting anything based on lukemftpd n our tree. It's way too complex and has historically contained root-compromising bugs.I want our base system ftpd to be as simple as possible.
I agree that the default ftpd should be simple. Yet for some reason I chose to use lukemftpd, maybe it had some anonftp features that were not available or at least not clearly documented in our ftpd.
I think the most important thing nowadays is a proper default support for anonymous ftp. For some strange reason we have to add every system account to /etc/ftpusers, i think that needs to be changed.
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