Re: Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system?

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.
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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