Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 13:10:57 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deprecating base system ftpd? Message-ID: <b02de7e6e08e63b0ee281432bffd834b34761d50.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2AbP2X339zbemZ9Y8edjNKdyygnR9mH48Q78nxwDtOBAg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPyFy2AbP2X339zbemZ9Y8edjNKdyygnR9mH48Q78nxwDtOBAg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 16:39 -0400, Ed Maste 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'm happy to make a port for it if anyone needs it. Comments? > I would find the removal of ftpd to be very inconvenient unless there was a port/pkg to install it from. If there is a port, it would only be useful if I could set PREFIX=/usr when building/installing it, so that its behavior when installed as a port/pkg would be identical to how it was when it was part of base (in terms of where its config files are located). -- Ian
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