Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:52:36 -0300 From: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system? Message-ID: <f0be36ee-b17b-562d-3c64-1fc0ece6e174@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <202009171404.08HE4fZj007939@slippy.cwsent.com> References: <CAPyFy2BHki84KuzP94AqTLk7v9FTAnLP-sa4HaFLq0kdxt0dEQ@mail.gmail.com> <202009171404.08HE4fZj007939@slippy.cwsent.com>
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On 17/09/20 11:04, Cy Schubert wrote: > 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. pkg still uses HTTP ❯ sudo pkg -d update -f Password: DBG(1)[78228]> pkg initialized Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... DBG(1)[78228]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD DBG(1)[78228]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-FreeBSD.sqlite' DBG(1)[78228]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/meta.conf with opts "i" Fetching meta.conf: 100% 163 B 0.2kB/s 00:01 DBG(1)[78228]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/packagesite.txz with opts "i" Fetching packagesite.txz: 100% 6 MiB 6.5MB/s 00:01
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