Thanks, I will check it out. wu-ftpd had like 60 cert advisories on it home
page so I was kinda of weary about it. ProFTP looks like a nice solid
product, I will give that a try, so far it has been building cleanly.
Thanks,
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jack Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: "Standard" FTP Daemon?
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:08:46AM -0600, Jack Barnett wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is a good ftp daemon?
> one that does what you want :-)
> >I am looking for one that is avaiable (for free
> > (as in speech)) for allot of differant Unicies (not just Linux), so
anything
> > I learn from it will be "portable". I have seen some of the popular
ones
> > out their with buffer over flows, and something that is stable and
secure
> > would also be a must. Also it would be nice if the ftp had allot of
> > community support (like a typical GNU project). Any ideas? any
suggestions?
> >
> I sure like proftpd. doing a search at rootshell, it has less than 1/4 of
the
> number of exploits listed than wu-ftpd, which is another popular one. It's
> released under the GPL with a few pieces under a BSD license. If you're
gonna
> learn a bunch about it, it has some kinda modular interface to where you
can
> write extensions to it, and have special code that runs for certain
directories.
>
> proftpd runs on just about any un*x you can think of.
> it's at http://www.proftpd.net/
>
> Theres also wu-ftpd, and some others, but I like proftpd.
>
> have fun
>
> greg
> --
> this is not here
>
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