From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 28 21:53:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557B937BBA2 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:53:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA16800; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:53:37 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA25511; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:53:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:53:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007290453.WAA25511@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matt Heckaman Cc: Nate Williams , Bill Fumerola , FreeBSD-ISP Subject: Re: FTP Servers In-Reply-To: References: <200007290440.WAA25453@nomad.yogotech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > : > FUD. > : > : Except for the fact that it's a fact, as has recently been shown. :( > > Well, that's unfair. That bug hit virtually every ftpd around. I would not > hold it against proftpd. It didn't hit FreeBSD's stock ftpd. > I've been using it for quite awhile and I am very > happy with their approach to the concept and their implimentation. I'm using it as well. But, others who I have great respect that have reviewed their code are not impressed with it. > : > proftpd is excellent. > : > : If security isn't important. Currently I know of know full-featured FTP > : server that has source available and is freeware. > > That's not fair. A root exploit that hit virtually every ftpd is not > grounds to go and say proftpd should only be used "if security isn't > important" I still stick with what I said. And, I still don't know of any full-featured FTP server that is secure. > Think about it for a moment, in my eyes, this bug does not > detract at all from proftpd's solid performance. Nobody is perfect. The same thing could be said about wu-ftpd, which has logged more miles than *any* other freeware ftp server. That it's worked for years doesn't mean it is seucre. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message