From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Mar 13 22:27:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from moby.geekhouse.net (moby.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEFC037B71F for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:27:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp152.geekhouse.net [192.168.1.152]) by moby.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f2E6TP169183; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:29:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010314000351.N31752@elvis.mu.org> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:27:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Bill Fumerola Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd Cc: Peter Pentchev , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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