Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 07:04:41 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system? Message-ID: <202009171404.08HE4fZj007939@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2BHki84KuzP94AqTLk7v9FTAnLP-sa4HaFLq0kdxt0dEQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPyFy2BHki84KuzP94AqTLk7v9FTAnLP-sa4HaFLq0kdxt0dEQ@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <CAPyFy2BHki84KuzP94AqTLk7v9FTAnLP-sa4HaFLq0kdxt0dEQ@mail.gmail.c om> , Ed Maste writes: > FTP is (becoming?) a legacy protocol, and I think it may be time to > remove the ftp server from the FreeBSD base system - with the recent > security advisory for ftpd serving as a reminder. > > I've proposed adding a deprecation notice to the man page in > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26447 to start this off. There are a > number of ftp servers in ports, and if we're going to remove the base > system one we can create a port for it first, as well. > > Any comments or concerns, please follow up in the code review or in email her > e. We should also deprecate the FTP client. I've been advocating removing FTP (and HTTP) from libfetch as well. People should be using HTTPS only. (libfetch could support a plugin that might be supplied by a port should someone be inclined to write one.) FTP is firewall unfriendly. The F5 gateway at $JOB does not support FTP. When we still worked at the office I had to take my $JOB laptop to the coffee shop to use their wireless to download patches from Broadcom's FTP site. Now that I WFH (we won't ever go back to the office) I download while disconnected from the VPN. Then move the removed bits to ports, which I think we already have in tnftp and tnftpd. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: https://FreeBSD.org NTP: <cy@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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