Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system?

[Ian Lepore]

On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 18:43 +0400, Gleb Popov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 6:05 PM Cy Schubert <
> Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 

Indeed, we have products which rely on this ability in libfetch and we
have to keep supporting them for many many years to come.

I hate it when someone imperiously declares [For security reasons]
"People should/shouldn't be using ______".  You have no idea what the
context is, and thus no ability to declare what should or shouldn't be
used in that context.  For example, two embedded systems talking to
each other over a point to point link within a sealed device are not
concerned about man in the middle attacks or other modern internet
threats.

-- Ian