Bug#4380: crippled anon ftp

[Bruce Perens]

On my system, installing wu-ftpd runs /usr/sbin/addftpuser, which puts the
shared libraries in place and "ls" works.

wu-ftpd has features not present in the normal ftp daemon. Some people like
them, some don't. Most used feature is "get directory-name.tar", which runs
tar on a directory and retrieves the output. It can also gzip that tar before
retrieving it.

Bruce

Bug#4380: crippled anon ftp

[Robert Komanec]

Package: wu-ftpd
Version: 2.4-23
Package: netstd
Version: 2.06-1

The man pages ftpd(8) and wu-ftpd(8) are both present on my system [Debian 1.1
kernel 2.0.0. #8] and they slightly differ from each other. However, both say,
that for anonymous ftp you need to "have ls(1) in ~ftp/bin with mode 111".
That's not enough. I had to download fileutils source and recompile ls to be
statically linked [using LDFLAGS=-static ./configure]. Without this step the
anon ftp does not return directory listing, neither it reports any error 
message.
It's a trap for beginners (like me).

Suggested steps:
 1. remove one of the man pages above and make it a link to the other, and
 2. include a note about the neccessity of further investigation regarding ls 
linking,
or
 2. include the statically linked ls in wu-ftpd package.

Anyway, what's the doubled *ftpd good for? The in.ftpd [or ftpd(8)] seems to
me the same as wu-ftpd(8). And the same maintainer...

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