On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 05:34:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello.
>
> about a week or 2 ago I remember reading 1 or 2 people kvetching about wu-ftp and
>singing the praises of proftp. We're implementing wu-ftp now (on a box that is still
>way pre-production so we have a little wiggle room) and I was wondering if anyone
>could expound on their reasons for liking one ftp over another. The rationale for wu
>was that we'll be using virtual ftp servers for different customers.
If You want to have virtual servers, use proftp
Major features:
- Strong security background / auditing
- Implements its own security on top of the UNIX security model
- gives You way more flexibility, fine-grained security
- You can allow / deny each individual FTP command for each
directory (allow STOR and no LIST, GET, PUT in incoming)
- No external helpers (/bin/ls, /lib directory, ...) required, all builtin
- You can do chroot() wherever You want to and require no special
setup (like copying a statically linked ls everywhere)
- You can fake uid/gid in directory listings to conceal real users
- Configuration File has the same syntax as Apache config file
- You have a nice module interface and lots of included modules
- Usage of linux capabilities (to improve security)
- Authentication agains LDAP / SQL database
- Bandwith limitation for individual clients
- ProFTPd can run standalone (not sure if this is possible with wu, too)
- Configfile has not to be parsed at each start
This is just what came to my mind :)
I did several ProFTPd presentations and some proftpd bugfixing / module
development...
> Thanks!
> stephanie
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