PROFTPD

[Res]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> >when it also included the biggest security nightmare every ftp
> >admin has 'wu-ftpd', they dropped proftpd but kept wu-ftpd, that
> >just made absolute no sense at all, I feel there is more to it
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> Simple, proftpd was never part of the distribution *EVER*, so

Yeah and newver wanted to include it, i recall the countless threads..

> out there would be willing or able to do without a migration
> period.  We never shipped anything other than wu-ftpd before, so
> we added vsftpd in 7.3 IIRC, then removed wu-ftpd recently in RHL

Coulda been then, apart form a few 9 fresh instlals, all hte rest have
been progressive upgrades through versions so never instlaled it from
distro

> >and RH wont say (at least publicly) why :)
>
> Well, now you know.  ;o)  Feel free to create new consipiracy
> theories, they're fun to resolve with factual information.  ;o)

Calling mulder now :)


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