Scott D. Yelich writes:
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> On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> > There's a mirror at ftp://ftp.qmail.org/pub/koobera.math.uic.edu/
> > which uses a more conventional (translation: insecure) FTP server.
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> What do you mean insecure?
Dan's anonftpd chroots itself, and there's no way out. Crackers simply
cannot break authentication because there *is* no authentication.
Anybody can download only the files in the ftpd directory. Anything
else is less secure.
> What's the deal with DJB's FTP with no LS and crazy
> filenames?
Isn't it about time we had an ftp server which cooperated with a
visual ftp client by giving it an easily parsed listing format?
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