PROFTPD

[Res]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Thursday 23 October 2003 06:29, Res wrote:
> > ProFTPd has always had a good security track record, RH used to
> > include it years ago (ok i think it was only on the contrib tho),
> > when it also included the biggest security nightmare every ftp admin
> > has 'wu-ftpd', they dropped proftpd but kept wu-ftpd, that just made
> > absolute no sense at all, I feel there is more to it and RH wont say
> > (at least publicly) why :)
>
> Wu was dropped in 9.  Probably just an oversite, or a deprecated term to
> have it in 8.0.

Yes, I refused to use it in years so I stopped taking notice of it, moved
to proftpd (because RH included it) and stuck with it, vsftp is on hte
anon server because it was a fresh install and it's not doin anything
special  :)

I spose it comes down to what we all prefere.
As someone pointed out 34 vulns for proftpd over how many years, as
against 3 or 4 or vsftp but how new is that, and of course the fact that
vsftpd is a plain as you can get, there is SFA code in it to go wrong, where
advanced servers, obviously have higher risk of exploits.

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Res
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