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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Subject: Re: bin/5109: patch to ftpd, new option to limit number of ftpd sessions
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The following reply was made to PR bin/5109; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: dchapes@golden.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/5109: patch to ftpd, new option to limit number of ftpd sessions
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 13:42:37 +0100

 As dchapes@golden.net wrote:
 
 > FreeBSD's ftpd(8) has no way to limit the number of ftp clients
 > allowed at one time so I spent a few minutes to add and test a new
 > "-C maxchildren" option to ftpd to do this (when used with the
 > existing -D option).
 
 Instead of inventing a bunch of commandline options for each resource
 limit, did you consider using login.conf, and making ftpd using the
 user "ftp"'s login class for anonymous access (and i think that's what
 you actually want)?  This would IMHO constitute a better approach.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
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