[NCLUG] New School Servers

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Sun Sep 2 10:11:03 MDT 2001


On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 quent at pobox.com wrote:

> A new release of ProFTPD came out on Aug. 22, by the way.
>
> Checking BUGTRAQ's archive shows the same number of vulnerability issues
> with wu-ftpd and ProFTPD. I stand corrected!  I don't know what possessed
> me to say that _anything_ is "highly secure", let alone an ftp server :)

ummm ...  The Open BSD ftpd has actually NOT had the holes on
Linux which it has on OpenBSD, due to the way that
authentication is handled.  I've kept and use a vairiant which
is available at:

  http://www.owlriver.com/projects/ftpd-BSD/index.html

-- Russ




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