Re: Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system?

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:04:41AM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> In message <CAPyFy2BHki84KuzP94AqTLk7v9FTAnLP-sa4HaFLq0kdxt0dEQ_at_mail.gmail.c
> om>
> , Ed Maste writes:
> > 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 her
> > e.
> 
> We should also deprecate the FTP client.
> 
> I've been advocating removing FTP (and HTTP) from libfetch as well. People 
> should be using HTTPS only. (libfetch could support a plugin that might be 
> supplied by a port should someone be inclined to write one.)
> 
That that and we can throw away half of the ports tree ;)

Best regards,
Bapt