<span style="font-family: georgia;">vsftpd simply rocks. Even wu-ftpd works fast. That proftpd seems to be a piece of sh*t!<br><br>Security is one thing. Annoying users is another. What good is it to have a super secure system when my users spend hours to download or upload files? I'm pretty sure vsftpd can be configure or patched.
<br style="font-family: georgia;"></span><br style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">-- </span><br style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Peter "Excalibur"</span>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tony Nelson</b> <<a href="mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com">tonynelson@georgeanelson.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At 8:31 PM +1000 7/30/07, David Timms wrote:<br>>Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:<br>>> Even after this:<br>>><br>>> UseReverseDNS off<br>>> IdentLookups off<br>>><br>>><br>>> in /etc/proftpd.conf
<br>>><br>>> it still sucks! I've never seen such a sluggish ftp server.<br>>Perhaps you would like to try vsftpd. I have not had such problems with it.<br><br>One complaint I have against vsftpd (and most ftp servers) is that they
<br>allow unlimited password cracking attempts. Proftpd can be configured to<br>limit the attempts per connection. I have set ours to 1 attempt and<br>protect ftp with the same iptables recent module rules that protect ssh.
<br>As ftp (and sometimes ssh) often have many file transfers in a row, each in<br>separate connections, I use pam_recent to clean the recent module's list.<br><br>On our server proftpd is fast.<br>--<br>____________________________________________________________________
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