a simple patch to enable RFC2640 for /usr/libexec/ftpd

Pieter de Goeje pieter at degoeje.nl
Wed Apr 18 17:43:23 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> 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.
Ah thanks for clearing that up :)
>
> > 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.

Cheers,
Pieter de Goeje


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