FTP Server

Cowles, Steve steve at stevecowles.com
Sun Feb 1 19:02:46 UTC 2004


Jason Dixon wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 13:06, Nicholas Evans wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>>     I've heard quite a few FTPd horror stories, and I was wondering -
>> What is the most secure and reliable FTPd to use? The one that comes
>> with Fedora, or something else? I've been looking on google, but I
>> want some opinions. Thanks!
> 
> There is no such thing as a secure ftp server.  I highly suggest you
> look into sftp/scp via OpenSSH.
> 

Despite Jason's rather narrow minded view of what constitutes a secure
service... I have been running pute-ftpd for a couple of years now. To this
day, I have not regretted that decision.

Checkout: http://www.pureftpd.org

They even supply RPM's.

Steve Cowles





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