[H-GEN] FTP login by wtmp?

[Jason Henry Parker]

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David Jericho <davidj at in4free.com.au> writes:

> I strongly strongly recommend proftpd. It suppots the 2.2.x kernels
> capabilities security features, and all around is a very sweet ftp
> daemon.
> 
> http://www.proftpd.org for the site.

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Be careful.
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Be sure to get the latest proftpd, as a recent version was susceptible
to the same (yes, the same[1]) attack that wu-ftpd was.

That said, David's correct:  I've found proftpd to be *much* better
and more configurable than wu-ftpd ever was.

In the same vein, people running apache on single-user workstations
(to serve files, for example) might want to use boa instead; zsh can
be a nifty replacement for bash; rxvt takes less memory than xterm (or
*shudder* eterm); and so on.

[1] : AFAIK, IIRC, IANAL, ICBW, etc etc etc.

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