From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 22 21: 8:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DFA537B69F for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:08:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 85357 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Jun 2000 04:08:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Jun 2000 04:08:46 -0000 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:08:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Mike Tancsa Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fwd: WuFTPD: Providing *remote* root since at least1994 In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000622233159.0351a7d8@mail.sentex.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 10:34 PM 6/22/2000 -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: > >Hm, given the number of explots for wu-ftpd in the last year and a half, I > >wonder if it should just be removed from the ports tree based on the > >assumption that there are more, and it's just a risk. > > > >(Does anyone actually still run it?) > > A lot of people run it still. I would use the stock ftpd with FreeBSD if > there was a better way to control anon uploads. > > ---Mike Hm, yeah, I tried searching freshmeat for ftpds, and proftpd seems like the only other full-featured one. Well, I'm getting glad I don't need to run a ftpd. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message