Re: Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system?

From: Brooks Davis <brooks_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:12:34 +0000
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 06:43:16PM +0400, Gleb Popov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 6:05 PM Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_cschubert.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I've been advocating removing FTP (and HTTP) from libfetch as well. People
> > should be using HTTPS only.
> >
> 
> Isn't this a bit too much? I often find myself in need to download
> something starting with "http://" or "ftp://" and use fetch for this.

<sarcasm>
Yes, let's remove access to instance metadata on several (hundred-?)million
AWS instances.
</sarcasm>

-- Brooks

Received on Thu Sep 17 2020 - 13:12:35 UTC

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