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@earthling.net] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. August 2001 09:33 An: suse-security@suse.com 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com
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@tiwag.at> To: <tm_wanka@earthling.net>; <suse-security@suse.com> 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@earthling.net] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. August 2001 09:33 An: suse-security@suse.com 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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