Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (511 mails)

["Oyku Gencay" <oykug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thank you all for your feedback and comments. I think I'll stick with
proftpd for the time being, in my installation I do not expect much traffic.

Thank you all.

----- Original Message -----
From: Peer Stefan <stefan.peer@xxxxxxxx>
To: <tm_wanka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <suse-security@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:46 AM
Subject: AW: [suse-security] which ftpd?


> Hi,
>
> Neither proftp nor wu-ftp have known security flaws (except that standard
> ftp doesn't use any ciphers, but that's ftp).
> ProFTPd's configuration is easier and therefor it's easier to achieve a
> secure installation/configuration of ProFTPd.
> Wu-FTP's performance is better, so it's the better choice for servers with
> high traffic.
> I'd say for beginners it's easier to deal with ProFTPd, because I don't
> think one starts with a server for several hundrets (or thousands) of
users
> with a load of several GBs a day ...
>
> I dont't know the other servers mentioned in this thread, but they look
> promising.
>
> regards,
> Stefan
>
> *just my $0.02*
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Thomas Michael Wanka [mailto:tm_wanka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. August 2001 09:33
> An: suse-security@xxxxxxxx
> Betreff: Re: [suse-security] which ftpd?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> On 22 Aug 2001, at 11:55, Boris Lorenz wrote:
> > I disagree. Most people (read: admins) who had their first contact
> > with Linux a couple of months or one year ago are happy to be able to
> > set up ftp or mail servers at all, there are only a few who really
> > care about security. If reality would be like you suggest we wouldn't
> > have so much trouble with security issues I suppose.
>
> That is partly true. But if you install the first server, you need to
> choose one. You are better off if you are looking for a secure one
> (like the original poster seemed to do). What has this poster from
> this discussion? More different opinions than he knew about before!
> So he is still left with looking at the homepages and other (security)
> ressources to find a good answer for his question, should he need
> to use wu-ftpd, how can he be shure it is secure on the long term
> after this discussion, where some people said it is not? I think he
> was better off with a list of available servers and  a short
> description as well as links to the homepages of the servers.
>
> mike
>
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