Re: r286615: /usr/libexec/ftpd broken!

From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:05:35 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Garrett Cooper wrote:

>
> > On Aug 18, 2015, at 08:57, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw_at_zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:38:47AM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >>
> >>>> On Aug 17, 2015, at 10:15 PM, O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Port security/heimdal installs its own ftpd with its appropriate manpages.
> >>>
> >>> Ugh :-(
> >>
> >> I would argue that heimdal should not be in the business of supplying an
> >> ftpd.  Kerberos-enabled ftp basically does not offer any advantages over
> >> scp.
> >
> > OPENSSH_NONE_CIPHER is OFF by default, i.e. ftp can give more speed.
>
> More pragmatically, there are less ssh clients (openssh or bust really),
> whereas there are more ftp clients (Firefox, Chrome, ftp(1), python,
> etc).

I specifically said "Kerberos-enabled ftp".  The things you listed do not
appear to qualify.

-Ben
Received on Tue Aug 18 2015 - 14:10:53 UTC

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