-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On March 24, 2004 09:32, Jim Clarke wrote: > > >ProFTPD should compile no problem. It's also the one FTP daemon I > > >recommend using if FTP has to be used at all. > > > > What would you use as an alternative? I know about SFTP, and, I > > must admit, this would be my utility of choice, because (to my > > knowledge) it only requires the SSH daemon. > > I agree SFTP is the way to go, however for a ftp standard on Mandrake I > would recommend wu-ftpd. It is well documented and one can "tweak" it quite > nicely.
please do the world a favour and not recommend wu-ftpd to anyone ever . there are much better alternatives out there such as proftpd and pureftpd that are flexible, easy to set up and more importantly secure. wu-ftpd is one of the unholy triune of UNIX servers that were very widely deployed and that have horrible, horrible security track records. the other two being Bind and Sendmail, of course. but even stacked against those two, wu-ftpd still probably takes the cake for Worst Daemon Ever. the sooner that thing goes out of circulation the better. it's on its way out as most distros default to the newer, better ftp daemons when one is installed. let's not buck that trend ;-) - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 while (!horse()); cart(); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYcCm1rcusafx20MRAk0tAJ4lDySm5UV1bEbodBNMjoU++c6XNQCfaVVl 4u9v47+bz04T6bFxy6V/k5k= =4D6a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
