From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jul 29 8:19:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E062837B6BC for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 08:19:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1434 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 10:14:33 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-Aug-7) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 10:14:33 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP Servers In-Reply-To: <20000728153131.B5021@jade.chc-chimes.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:00:47PM +0100, Homerton Webmaster wrote: > > What FTP server would people recommend? People have mentioned proftpd but > > it seems every version has a root exploit for it. I touched wu a long time > > ago, is > > that worth using these days? > > FUD. proftpd is excellent. Fud, foo... Both proftpd and wuftpd (and several others like WARFTPd) have had critical security holes that have been found with annoyingly entrehched versions. Both are excellent and offer *many* features and have ongoing development, thus new bugs once in a while. The stock FBSD FTP server is better than most stock ones and allows chrooted users, which is what drives many folks to pro/wu/war-ftpd. We use wuftpd on the AIX machines and it works well. If you use any of them, watch the security advisories, delay using new features, join the support mailing list and keep aware. - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message