FTPd recommendation?

[Chris H.]

Quoting Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov at gmail.com>:

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

But is not *nearly* as secure as vsftpd.

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> On 5/4/06, N.J. Thomas <njt at ayvali.org> wrote:
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>> * 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.
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>> Another vote for vsftpd:
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>>     http://vsftpd.beasts.org/
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>> Trivial to setup/configure, very secure.
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>> 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.
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>> (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.)
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>> Thomas
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>> --
>> N.J. Thomas
>> njt at ayvali.org
>> Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo
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