Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:27:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd Message-ID: <XFMail.010313222710.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010314000351.N31752@elvis.mu.org>
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On 14-Mar-01 Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 01:39:09PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > >> I am very against adding Yet One More inconsistency (read local hack) >> that takes our ftpd farther from the other BSD's. Some of us have hopes >> of using the LukeM/NetBSD ftpd in FreeBSD. This hack will be more more >> thing that the nay sayers use to prevent this from happening. > > Some might argue that in this case you are the nay sayer preventing > this from happening simply based on something that might happen.... > someday.... maybe. > > Sounds like a nice feature to me, btw. As Terry points out, however, this isn't secure, which makes it less useful than first appears. His 2 questions at the end are good ones. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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