Deprecating base system ftpd?

[Ted Hatfield]

My vote is also for no.

I still use it on most of my systems.  Easy to configure easy to use.



On Sun, 4 Apr 2021, Daniel Morante via freebsd-stable wrote:

> My vote is for no.
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> Reasoning is simple... at what point does it stop?  By continuously moving 
> stuff from base to ports, FreeBSD slowly becomes just a Kernel. ?
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> On 4/3/2021 4:39 PM, Ed Maste wrote:
>> I propose deprecating the ftpd currently included in the base system
>> before FreeBSD 14, and opened review D26447
>> (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26447) to add a notice to the man page.
>> I had originally planned to try to do this before 13.0, but it dropped
>> off my list. FTP is not nearly as relevant now as it once was, and it
>> had a security vulnerability that secteam had to address.
>> 
>> I'm happy to make a port for it if anyone needs it. Comments?
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