FTPd recommendation?

[Paul Howarth]

Angus MacGyver wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 05:53:59AM -0800, Noah wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> What are people using for their ftpd these days?   I am looking for something
>> easy to initiailize, configure, and is very secure.
> 
> 
> trying not to use FTP...
> I use a shell called scponly to "wrap" the incoming connection using sftp so that the users are chrooted to their own home directory.
> Granted, not everything is perfect, but for me, that is something that comes damn close with security in mind..
> 
> Everything over ssh, and restriced to their own home dir..
> 
> as always, YMMV 

ProFTPD is a very configurable FTP server that can handle virtual 
servers, FTP-over-SSL (with mod_tls) and can also chroot each user into 
their home dir. It's what I use anyway.

Paul.