On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 00:44:54 +0200 Simon Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Please correct me if I am wrong but as far as I know NetBSD's ftpd does not support SSL. Wouldn't bsdftpd-ssl be a more appropriate software for a modern O.S ? Cheers, Marcin
