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Date:      Mon, 5 Apr 2021 10:30:48 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Deprecating base system ftpd?
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On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 08:40, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> I propose deprecating the ftpd currently included in the base system
> before FreeBSD 14, and opened review D26447
> (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26447) to add a notice to the man page.
> I had originally planned to try to do this before 13.0, but it dropped
> off my list. FTP is not nearly as relevant now as it once was, and it
> had a security vulnerability that secteam had to address.

I vote for leaving it on the system.

I have a small basic system on a portable hard drive; no installed
ports. Just enough to carry in a USB key, and to plug into any
computer on a network. Having FTP out-of-the-box makes the system
usable as a server immediately without having to search around for an
ftp-package.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>



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