Purpose of lukemftpd?

Carl A. Schmidt carl at carlschmidt.net
Mon Sep 5 15:28:34 PDT 2005


On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:12:49PM -0400, Carl A. Schmidt wrote:
> Is there any reason why we have lukemftpd?
> 
> It's not enabled by default, much like kerberos, but we already have a
> ftpd, so it seems redundant unless I am missing something.
> 
> If we don't have a reason for it, why not say bye bye to it?
> -- 
> Carl Schmidt
> carl at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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





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