Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system?

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Sep 17 16:08:19 UTC 2020


On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 8:05 AM 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. (libfetch could support a plugin that might be
> supplied by a port should someone be inclined to write one.)
>

The project isn't going to do that. "tools not policy" dictates that
anything like that should be done in fetch(1) and likely only as a command
line option for people that require a secure connection (or that can
tolerate an insecure one).

Warner


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