On 17/09/20 11:04, Cy Schubert wrote:
In message <CAPyFy2BHki84KuzP94AqTLk7v9FTAnLP-sa4HaFLq0kdxt0dEQ@mail.gmail.c
om>
, Ed Maste writes:
FTP is (becoming?) a legacy protocol, and I think it may be time to
remove the ftp server from the FreeBSD base system - with the recent
security advisory for ftpd serving as a reminder.
I've proposed adding a deprecation notice to the man page in
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26447 to start this off. There are a
number of ftp servers in ports, and if we're going to remove the base
system one we can create a port for it first, as well.
Any comments or concerns, please follow up in the code review or in email her
e.
We should also deprecate the FTP client.
I've been advocating removing FTP (and HTTP) from libfetch as well. People
should be using HTTPS only. (libfetch could support a plugin that might be
supplied by a port should someone be inclined to write one.)
FTP is firewall unfriendly.
The F5 gateway at $JOB does not support FTP. When we still worked at the
office I had to take my $JOB laptop to the coffee shop to use their
wireless to download patches from Broadcom's FTP site. Now that I WFH (we
won't ever go back to the office) I download while disconnected from the
VPN.
Then move the removed bits to ports, which I think we already have in tnftp
and tnftpd.
pkg still uses HTTP
❯ sudo pkg -d update -f
Password:
DBG(1)[78228]> pkg initialized
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[78228]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD
DBG(1)[78228]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-FreeBSD.sqlite'
DBG(1)[78228]> Fetch: fetching from:
http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/meta.conf with
opts "i"
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 163 B 0.2kB/s 00:01
DBG(1)[78228]> Fetch: fetching from:
http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/packagesite.txz
with opts "i"
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100% 6 MiB 6.5MB/s 00:01
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