Re: Purpose of lukemftpd?

[Simon Schubert <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06.09.2005, at 00:37, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :In fact, it seems people prefer NetBSD's ftpd, which appears to be
> :based on lukemftpd.  So why not kill off our ftpd and settle on
> :moving lukemftpd into our libexec/ftpd, a-la NetBSD?
>     No, we are not putting anything based on lukemftpd n our tree.  
> It's
>     way too complex and has historically contained root-compromising 
> bugs.
>     I want our base system ftpd to be as simple as possible.

I agree that the default ftpd should be simple.  Yet for some reason I 
chose to use lukemftpd, maybe it had some anonftp features that were 
not available or at least not clearly documented in our ftpd.

I think the most important thing nowadays is a proper default support 
for anonymous ftp.  For some strange reason we have to add every system 
account to /etc/ftpusers, i think that needs to be changed.

cheers
  simon

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