Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system?

Kurt Jaeger pi at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 17 14:46:31 UTC 2020


Hi!

> > I've been advocating removing FTP (and HTTP) from libfetch as well. People
> > should be using HTTPS only.

> Isn't this a bit too much? I often find myself in need to download
> something starting with "http://" or "ftp://" and use fetch for this.

It's a bit too much. Deprecating it, 'add --really if you really
want to use http/ftp' would be more useful for the common
sys-admin 8-)

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