Paul, stay away from wu_ftpd. It might be a wonderful piece of software, it might do many things -- but it seems half the unix traffic on bugtraq is due to buffer overflows in wu_ftpd. A security hole was found in proftpd recently, but the patch (on bugtraq) is a one-line fix -- so I imagine the debian maintainer will have a patch out soon, if not already -- if you don't want to deal with compiling your own server.
proftpd just seems nicer. :) On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 02:49:14PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > I have debian installed and am very impressed. Apache is running. WU_FTP > is running. Mostly through no fault of my own :). The installation did an > excellent job ! > > My question regards previous mailings to this group discussing PRO_FTP and > security issues. Which FTP server do you recommend ? I am new to FTP > servers outside of windows. My concerns are security and > administration/directory-user-control. > > many thanks in advance, > > paul > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
