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Subject: Re: Fwd: WuFTPD: Providing *remote* root since at least1994
From: Colin Faber (cfaberfpsn.net)
Date: Thu Jun 22 2000 - 23:25:25 CDT

Agreed, with a correctly setup ProFTPD you can't got wrong, Much more
powerful then the stock FTPd and many less exploits then WU's stuff.

Spikeman wrote:
>
> ProFTPD does really where.. there were some explots in it in younger
> versions but by fair not as many as Wu FTPD...
>
> Mike Silbersack wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >
> > > At 10:34 PM 6/22/2000 -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> > > >Hm, given the number of explots for wu-ftpd in the last year and a half, I
> > > >wonder if it should just be removed from the ports tree based on the
> > > >assumption that there are more, and it's just a risk.
> > > >
> > > >(Does anyone actually still run it?)
> > >
> > > A lot of people run it still. I would use the stock ftpd with FreeBSD if
> > > there was a better way to control anon uploads.
> > >
> > > ---Mike
> >
> > Hm, yeah, I tried searching freshmeat for ftpds, and proftpd seems like
> > the only other full-featured one. Well, I'm getting glad I don't need to
> > run a ftpd. :)
> >
> > Mike "Silby" Silbersack
> >
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