PROFTPD

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 22 23:22:16 UTC 2003


Res said:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
>> Ronny Buchmann (ronny-vlug at vlugnet.org) said:
>> > > No. We prefer the security history of vsftpd. :)
>> >
>> > So why not use pureftpd?
>>
>> Because we haven't had problems with vsftpd, and it's had both
>> a good stability and performance record in our use. (i.e., if
>> it isn't broken, don't fix it...)
>
> One problem Bill, vsftpd is useless in a virtual situation where you have
> multiple customers, one copy of the program and a config file for each
> customer, with proftpd we do it with just 1 sole config file, not with
> hundreds of them.

Which I'm sure is part of the reason Bill said "It's certainly a candidate
for Fedora Extras."  Or at least he can now claim it was. :-)

-- 
William Hooper





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