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If anyone out there runs an ftp server, I would appreciate any opinions on
which ftp server is the best? (most secure, easy to administer, etc.)

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means...just skip over it :)

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]If anyone out there runs an ftp server, I would appreciate any opinions on
]which ftp server is the best? (most secure, easy to administer, etc.)

All are pretty trivial to administer I think.
I am using vsftpd right now (for about 3 weeks) and it is certainly easy
to set up ( one config file in /etc/vsftp.conf)
My main complaint is the "cute" error messages which the author felt
called upon to include. (make my day, have fun, Sorry dude, ....)
These do not give the impression of a professional piece of work.
(I have made a Mandrake RPM out of this, which fixed some but not all of
these messages. If interested I sent a copy tothe Mandrake contrib
section-- do not know if it has shown up yet though. You could also get
it from ftp://theory.physics.ubc.ca/vsftpd-1.0.1-1mdk*

Quote:> If anyone out there runs an ftp server, I would appreciate any opinions on
> which ftp server is the best? (most secure, easy to administer, etc.)

A good idea to switch from the proftpd-way-of-ftp  -- www.pureftpd.org

Regards,

Bogomips

In addition to it's difficult setup which I found very annoying.

ProFTPd has some pretty kick-ass features like MySQL utilization, but
I've not done anything of the sort yet...not sure if I want to.

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Subject: ProFTPD - Problems in file globbing, gives segmentation fault.
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:22:40 +0100
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SUMMARY
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A problem in handling file globbing exists in the current version of
ProFTPD
1.2.4 (but its fixed in the Candidate version: 1.2.5rc1). This
is very similar to the wu-ftpd bug (ls ~{) and occurs when you issue
the command: ls /////////// (11 or more /). I havent figured out if
its exploitable. Thats why I post it to you guys. :-)

AFFECTED VERSIONS
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ProFTPD 1.2.4
ProFTPD 1.2.2rc3
(Others may be affected as well.)
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