a simple patch to enable RFC2640 for /usr/libexec/ftpd
Andre Oppermann
andre at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 17 14:48:36 UTC 2007
Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 10:37 +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
>
>>On Monday 16 April 2007 21:24, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>>
>>>Pieter de Goeje 写道:
>>>
>>>>I think your patch looks good, however there have been some changes to ftpd
>>>>since 6.1. Also, since lukemftp is imported from NetBSD, you might want to
>>>>contact the original author so future imports won't discard this new feature.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Original author of lukemftp? I never used that software before, but
>>>would be glad to try as next option and see if I can patch that too.
>>
>>lukemftp is the former name of tnftp, which is known in
>>FreeBSD as the native ftp client and server. So it would
>>be better to send your pathes directly to them, Luke Mewburn
>>or the NetBSD project.
>>
>>http://freshmeat.net/projects/tnftp/
>>
>
> Okay, now I got it, so /usr/libexec/ftpd is
> simply /usr/libexec/lukemftpd's copy or reconfigured version.
This is not correct. We have lukemftpd in the src/contrib directory
but it is not activated by default. The standard ftpd found in usr/libexec
is the traditional FreeBSD ftpd. It is not imported from somewhere else.
> I'll reach tnftp team. I read from their webpage that they have
> implemented RFC 2389 themselves.
Yar Tikhiy is our ftpd maintainer. I've put him into the cc line of this
email. He may not be subscribed to this mailing list.
--
Andre
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