Hi there. Until recently, I was running wu-ftpd as my FTP daemon. But I don't want to use it anymore for security reasons (it has a lot of security holes, which are easily exploitable). So I'm looking for some other secure FTP daemon. I tried bsd-ftpd, and proftpd, both were fine but lack a feature I somewhat need - being able to transmit entire directory structures as compressed archives. That is, with wu-ftpd I could connect to the FTP server, and say there is some directory foo/bar with files and subdirectories in it, downloading foo/bar.tar.gz would send a gzipped tarball of the directory foo/bar.
Does anyone have any idea of a secure FTP daemon (preferably running as a nonprivileged user) which supports this? Any suggestions appreciated, -- Tom Alsberg
