download wu-ftpd

[Security]

Ed Wilts wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:15:51PM +0500, Muhammad Rizwan wrote:
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>>>From where i can download wu-ftpd for fedora core 2. Before that wu-ftpd
>>was included in Linux distribution, but now it seems to be out from the
>>package.
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>Your safest bet is to get the source rpm for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
>2.1 from Red Hat's ftp site.  You know that will kept current with
>security fixes for several more years.
>
>lftp ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/2.1ES/en/os/SRPMS> ls -l wu*
>-rw-rw-r--    3 ftp      ftp        322179 Jul 28  2003 wu-ftpd-2.6.1-21.src.rpm
>-rw-rw-r--    3 ftp      ftp        325091 Mar 05  2004 wu-ftpd-2.6.1-22.src.rpm
>-rw-rw-r--    3 ftp      ftp        325393 Mar 18  2004 wu-ftpd-2.6.1-23.2.src.rpm
>-rw-rw-r--    3 ftp      ftp        326730 Jul 20  2004 wu-ftpd-2.6.1-24.src.rpm
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>However, I do advise you to chose a different FTP server.  vsftpd is
>currently supported by Red Hat.  ProFTPd isn't, but it has the
>configurability of wu-ftpd that vsftpd doesn't have.
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And Redhat have not update the last security hole in Wu-ftpd :-/  so
it's safe to use an other one.