On 2020-09-16 13:34, Ed Maste wrote: > FTP is (becoming?) a legacy protocol, and I think it may be time to > remove the ftp server from the FreeBSD base system - with the recent > security advisory for ftpd serving as a reminder. > > I've proposed adding a deprecation notice to the man page in > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26447 to start this off. There are a > number of ftp servers in ports, and if we're going to remove the base > system one we can create a port for it first, as well. > > Any comments or concerns, please follow up in the code review or in email > here. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >
Is the version we have in base unique? That is to say, does it need to be preserved somehow. I know it is based on on the original 4.2BSD ftpd, but did we pull in code from anywhere else at some point? Or maybe a better question is: Which ftpd is the most similar, and would allow people to migrate most easily (tnftpd from netbsd?) -- Allan Jude
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