ProFTPD has had a TON of problems, they really need to audit it. If you want
secure I suggest vsftpd from chris evans:

ftp://ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk/pub/linux/

it's what I use now.

Kurt Seifried, seifriedsecurityportal.com
Securityportal - your focal point for security on the 'net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nix" <susenix.hispeed.com>
To: <suse-securitysuse.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [suse-security] 7.1-i386-ftp

> At 05:47 AM 22/03/2001, you wrote:
> >Daniel Bischof and I have migrated the ftp.suse.com ftp server from
> >proftpd to good-old wuftpd along with xinetd. During the migration we had
> >to boot one time because the socket wasn't released, and the whole thing
> >might have been a bit bumpy at times. However, we believe that most of the
> >problems that people reported (and that we couldn't reproduce) will
> >vanish.
>
>
> eeek.. Whats wrong with proftpd?
> /me loves his proftpd lovin...
> I can't see any advantages to going to wu(compromised often)ftpd????
>
> just MHO
>
>
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