r286615: /usr/libexec/ftpd broken!

Garrett Cooper yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 16:01:32 UTC 2015


> On Aug 18, 2015, at 08:57, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:38:47AM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>> 
>>>> On Aug 17, 2015, at 10:15 PM, O. Hartmann <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Port security/heimdal installs its own ftpd with its appropriate manpages.
>>> 
>>> Ugh :-(
>> 
>> I would argue that heimdal should not be in the business of supplying an
>> ftpd.  Kerberos-enabled ftp basically does not offer any advantages over
>> scp.
> 
> OPENSSH_NONE_CIPHER is OFF by default, i.e. ftp can give more speed.

More pragmatically, there are less ssh clients (openssh or bust really), whereas there are more ftp clients (Firefox, Chrome, ftp(1), python, etc).
Cheers,
-NGie



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