From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 13:12:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7112916A409 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 13:12:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dunstan@freebsd.czest.pl) Received: from freebsd.czest.pl (freebsd.czest.pl [80.48.250.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED09413C4BB for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 13:12:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dunstan@freebsd.czest.pl) Received: from freebsd.czest.pl (freebsd.czest.pl [80.48.250.4]) by freebsd.czest.pl (8.13.4/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l4ADlfEO039105 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 13:47:41 GMT (envelope-from dunstan@freebsd.czest.pl) Received: (from dunstan@localhost) by freebsd.czest.pl (8.13.4/8.12.9/Submit) id l4ADleNJ039104 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 13:47:40 GMT (envelope-from dunstan) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:47:40 +0000 From: "Wojciech A. Koszek" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070510134740.GA39021@FreeBSD.czest.pl> Mail-Followup-To: "Wojciech A. Koszek" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender DNS name whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (freebsd.czest.pl [80.48.250.4]); Thu, 10 May 2007 13:47:41 +0000 (UTC) Subject: We don't really need two FTP daemons X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:12:55 -0000 Hello, There is a lot of confusion caused by the fact of having two instances of the FTP daemon present in our source tree. First one is src/libexed/ftpd/... Second one lies in src/contrib/lukemftpd/... We don't need to have both of them, unless one has much more powerful functionality over the second. However, in my opinion the major purpose of having FTP daemon in the base is possibility of fast configuration with minimal cost, just to "get it up and running". I think first server fullfills this requirement. If you're FreeBSD user and administrator, there are several advantages of having only one FTP server. I think first daemon was security reviewed by the previous FreeBSD security officer, which is the biggest plus. lukemftpd(8) had some well known problems present in the past. The first is updated and it's functionality is enhanced to meet standards (see latest changes from Yar Tichy). Cost of maintainance of one server is lower. It saves a lot of confusion for users -- we have both daemons present in a inetd.conf(8) file, without mentioning, whether a first is more powerfull than the second one. Some discussions with FreeBSD developers made me feel that we may really want to sort a "double FTP daemon" issue out. Could we decide if we really want to support lukemftpd(8) ? Thanks, -- Wojciech A. Koszek wkoszek@FreeBSD.org http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/dunstan/