Re: Anonymous sftp

From: Chris Thompson (cet1-nospam@cam.ac.uk.invalid)
Date: 08/22/02


From: cet1-nospam@cam.ac.uk.invalid (Chris Thompson)
Date: 22 Aug 2002 20:39:26 GMT

In article <Pine.GSO.4.44.0208211736160.23231-100000@grover.rite-group.com>,
Rich Teer <rich@rite-group.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Akop Pogosian wrote:
>
>> more robust package like proftpd. I haven't looked at Solaris 9 ftpd
>> yet.
>
>Apparently, it's based on the wu-ftpd.

Which has an absolutely horrendous history of security problems. This
change is not likely to make Solaris administrators sleep more soundly,
I feel.

> How THAT compares to
>proftpd, I don't know (I use the latter).

Proftpd has a somewhat better record, to damn it with faint praise ...

Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 [at] cam.ac.uk



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