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Re: OT: FTP Servers
From: Mikael Olsson <mikael.olsson () clavister com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 22:54:37 +0200
John Smith wrote:
I have been tasked to build a FTP server. I have selected the OS (a Unix variant that I know how to strip down to bare bones). The last time I built a Unix FTP server (roughly five years ago) I used WU-FTPD. My question is this: Is WU-FTPD still a good FTP server to use?
Though there haven't been any publicly announced vulnerabilities in it for some time, parts of its code still scares me.
If WU-FTPD is not a good FTP server to use or there are better (i.e. - more secure) servers out there, what would you suggest? The needs for the site are anonymous FTP, potentially some 'real' FTP users, and up to 500 simultaneous FTP connections. And of course the FTP server should be free. :-)
I'd look at vsftpd and pureftpd. They're both manageably small while still doing everything the average site needs. I _used_ to think highly of proftpd, but that was before featuritis struck and the inevitable vulnerabilities followed. It's still on the low side of vulnerability counts, but it's falling short of its initial "very secure" goal. -- Mikael Olsson, Clavister AB Storgatan 12, Box 393, SE-891 28 ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK, Sweden Phone: +46 (0)660 29 92 00 Mobile: +46 (0)70 26 222 05 Fax: +46 (0)660 122 50 WWW: http://www.clavister.com _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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