FTPd recommendation?

Iantcho Vassilev ianchov at gmail.com
Fri May 5 20:02:13 UTC 2006


My vote goes to PureFtpd..
It`s ideal server..




On 5/4/06, N.J. Thomas <njt at ayvali.org> wrote:
>
> * Noah <admin2 at enabled.com> [2006-05-04 05:48:40 -0800]:
> > What are people using for their ftpd these days? I am looking for
> > something easy to initiailize, configure, and is very secure.
>
> Another vote for vsftpd:
>
>     http://vsftpd.beasts.org/
>
> Trivial to setup/configure, very secure.
>
> In addition to all of the normal security features that vsftpd offers,
> we turn on the pasv_min_port/pasv_max_port options to restrict the
> download ports, it's a nice feature.
>
> (I attended an Apache/FTP security lecture in the Bay Area a couple of
> years ago (2002/2003) at one of the local user groups there -- the
> speaker was "testing" out his talk on us before he gave it at some
> Usenix/SAGE conference. The ftp portion was a howto on securing wu-ftpd,
> but before he started, he said point blank that if you didn't need
> anonymous uploads, to just use vsftpd.)
>
> Thomas
>
> --
> N.J. Thomas
> njt at ayvali.org
> Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo
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