Re: [gentoo-server] which ftp-server

[Andrea Ferraris]

> From: "Benjamin Coles" <sj7trunks@g.o>

> I second proftpd... most people like to complain and say ftp is a
> unsecure protocol because it's not ssl. Well news to the people that
> don't know, proftpd supports ssl which works wonders on system=)

Thx. Good to know.

I don't know wich are the details and I have very litle experience with
proftpd and none with pure-ftpd, but for curiosity I went to pure-ftpd
site and I saw:

"Transmission of cleartext passwords and commands can be avoided :
Pure-FTPd has optional support for an SSL/TLS encryption layer using
the OpenSSL library. "

I also saw that Pure-FTP doesn't have any records of security vulnerability,
instead it seems that in the past there was compromised system due to
proftpd security bugs.

Regards,
                    Andrea