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? Message-ID: <CAJuc1zPxAytN1waRMoJG0-%2Bh4W0uS39C9yLovgyTAaBObrMwVA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2AbP2X339zbemZ9Y8edjNKdyygnR9mH48Q78nxwDtOBAg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPyFy2AbP2X339zbemZ9Y8edjNKdyygnR9mH48Q78nxwDtOBAg@mail.gmail.com>
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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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