opinions on replacing vsftpd with proftpd?
Rui Miguel Seabra
rms at 1407.org
Sun Jun 20 13:41:34 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 09:32 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>
> ...
> > My argument for proftpd or pure-ftpd is their capability to use FTP with
> > TLS....
>
> ok, two votes for proftpd. that's a consensus, i guess. i just did a
> quick search and found the RPM proftpd-1.2.10rc1-1.fc1.i386.rpm. since it
> installed nicely, i'm going to assume that the "fc1" part is not going to
> be an issue with it running on FC2, although i haven't had a chance to
> test it yet. unless someone has a strong opinion on which build and
> version should be used on FC2.
proftpd has historically had many security problems (probably due to the
many more features).
ftp is braindead anyway, if you have to use a daeon, use one with the
least ammount of features possible.
Rui
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