Alternatives to Wu.FTPD? 5
Another representative of Clan Anonymous Coward wanted suggestions on the following: "Whats a good FTP server to use now-a-days? Since the recent decline of the once used everwhere wu-ftpd some new products have popped up . But who is testing them for security. I was looking at BeroFTPd and ProFTPd but they seem to be very slow getting out of beta stages. Are they trustworthy ? What other freeware alternatives are there ? "
OpenBSD's ftpd (Score:1)
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that ProFTPD has, but it's probably a lot more secure.
To give you some idea of the features, the man page is here [openbsd.org].
For now, just say no to ProFTPD (Score:1)
See:
http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/02/12/918825768.
http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/08/31/936140949.
http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/09/17/937609465.
http://www.suse.de/security/announcements/suse-
(note that SuSE has currently dropped it from their distribution.)
Personally, given that it's had more than one different security problem pop up in a relatively short time, I'd wait till they fix the existing bugs and then give it another month to see if any other bugs pop up before using it. (But, then, my need to worry at all about any kind of FTP service dissappeared last week and is unlikely to return.)
Re:For now, just say no to ProFTPD (Score:1)
stick with wuftpd (Score:1)
other alternatives (Score:1)