On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:45:04AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 09:13:52PM -0700, Dave Mangot wrote:
> >
> > I know the current maintainer, TJ Saunders, and mentioned the whole thing
> > to him over beers one night and he was and is fully commited to the
> > security of Proftpd. He was pretty bummed to hear that Proftpd has such a
> > bad rap with the OpenBSD community. Especially since he takes the security
> > of Proftpd very seriously.
> >
> > I'm not saying that we should definitely include it, only that just because
> > it was bad at some point in the past, doesn't mean it has remained that way
> > for 6 years. AFAIK, it has been rewritten.
>
> Any feature of proftp that vsftp lacks ?
>
> Serious question. No idea.
Though it's been a year since I used either, I remember that ProFTPd had
much more sophisticated per-user and per-directory configuration.
Of course, the vsftpd guys say that one doesn't need that in almost all
cases, and that seems sensible. I was pretty happy with vsftpd, anyway
(it only sucked up to the extent that an FTP server is going to suck,
anyway - `choose between a decent firewall and encryption').
Joachim
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