Purpose of lukemftpd?

Carl A. Schmidt carl at carlschmidt.net
Mon Sep 5 15:40:26 PDT 2005


On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:37:36PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :In fact, it seems people prefer NetBSD's ftpd, which appears to be
> :based on lukemftpd.  So why not kill off our ftpd and settle on
> :moving lukemftpd into our libexec/ftpd, a-la NetBSD?
> :-- 
> :Carl Schmidt
> :carl at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>     No, we are not putting anything based on lukemftpd n our tree.  It's
>     way too complex and has historically contained root-compromising bugs.
>     I want our base system ftpd to be as simple as possible.

Then get rid of it?
-- 
Carl Schmidt
carl at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx





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