Re: [PLUG] Best FTP?

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 12:12:01PM -0400, Jon Nelson wrote:
> "Pure-FTPd is a free (GPL), secure, production-quality and
> standard-conformant FTP server based upon Troll-FTPd. It doesn't provide
> useless bells and whistles, but focuses on efficiency and ease of use. It
> provides simple answers to common needs, plus unique useful features for
> personal users as well as hosting providers."

I know nothing of Pure-FTPd, having never used it, so don't take
this as detracting in anyway from that, just offering variety.

The NetBSD in-tree ftpd is lukemftpd. It is, similarly, focused on
efficiency without (too many--it does things like on-the-fly tar/gz
if you configure it to do so) bells and whistles. It hooks in in a
very clean way with Unix permissions. It supports IPv6, RFC 2389,
and the draft IETF ftp extensions. Looks like Luke's got a freshmeat
project for it these days at

  http://freshmeat.net/projects/lukemftpd/?topic_id=89.

If you're looking for a feature-ful FTP daemon and are willing to
shell out a bit for it, consider NcFTPd. It does a whole lot
(notably lacking in free FTP daemons is its virtual users feature,
which works *really* well and solves a very much extant problem:
allowing clients/outside users/whatever ftp access without giving
them shell accounts), does it quite well, and has a rather good
security history. (It hasn't had that many problems, has fixed them
quickly, and been responsible about notifications and such.)

> BTW wu-ftp has had some major security issues in the past.

Past? Feh. It'll have more, just wait. Same's true of ProFTPd.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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