From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 0:14: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04CB737B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 00:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cics.co.za (mail.cics.co.za [196.15.196.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B1C43E3B for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 00:13:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@netchat.co.za) Received: (qmail 59739 invoked by uid 85); 2 Sep 2002 07:18:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mark.igate.org.za) (196.15.196.5) by mail.cics.co.za with SMTP; 2 Sep 2002 07:18:33 -0000 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:12:49 +0200 From: Mark Pearce To: Rob B Cc: magudexter@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a secure FTP server for BSD? Message-Id: <20020902091249.4c115d26.mark@netchat.co.za> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020902142820.0411db40@pop.ozemail.com.au> References: <20020830072248.84789.qmail@web20304.mail.yahoo.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020902142820.0411db40@pop.ozemail.com.au> Organization: Netchat X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 14:30:05 +1000 Rob B grunted: > >Can anyone recommend me a good(meaning secure and > >reliable) FTP server for BSD? The pure-ftp server is > >an option but still we haven't found any concurrent so > >far(except for NcFTPd which comes with license). > > I have tried Proftpd, but it's very big and tough to configure. You > might like to try vsftpd from ports. It's small, very minimal, but > very secure. > > cheers, > Rob Personally I have tried wu-ftpd, Proftpd but have finally settled for Pure-FTPd, it's fast, easy to setup, have had no problems in production. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message