Re: [gentoo-server] which ftp-server

[Benjamin Coles]

SFTP is dramatically slow from my experiences...

-Benjamin

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 09:39, Ben Munat wrote:
> Well, something (ssh?) installed sftp on both of my boxes... anything
> wrong with using that? It's secure and seems to work just fine. What do
> pureftp and proftp offer that sftp doesn't?
>
> b
>
>
> Andrea Ferraris wrote:
> >>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
> >
>