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Subject: Re: Solaris FTPd Capabilities
From: Gary Mulder (garyCGEN.COM)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 08:34:05 CDT

Crist,

A consultant from Sun even recommended to me to use wu-ftpd over Sun's
ftpd. He cited wu-ftpd's security, configurablity and powerful logging
capabilities as far superior.

Gary

Crist Clark wrote:
>
> Looking at the manpage, the ftpd that comes with Solaris (at least 2.6 and
> 7) is meant to support FTP service for users with shell accounts and
> anonymous FTP and nothing in between. I am hoping that the documentation
> is lacking and that there are tricks to provide accounts to users without
> shell access and possibly to chroot non-anonymous users.
>
> Do I need to resort to 3rd party FTP daemon? We are talking about one
> machine with a handful of temporary FTP users, and using any non-Sun
> product will probably make some people around here sweat. I'd like to
> squeeze the functionality out of the Solaris ftpd if possible.