Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system?

Wed Sep 16 20:53:22 UTC 2020

> On 16. Sep 2020, at 22:45, mike tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
> 
> On 9/16/2020 2:07 PM, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>> # override default of no subsystems
>> -Subsystem    sftp    /usr/libexec/sftp-server
>> +Subsystem    sftp    internal-sftp -l INFO
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What is the difference between these two ?  Is it not all OpenSSH ?

Yes, but one is an external binary, while internal doesn’t rely on that. Which means that your chroot setup won’t require bin and lib dirs. For most scenarios, internal is the way to go.

The man page has more details.

-m

>     ---Mike
> 
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