Re: Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system?

From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg_at_funkthat.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:45:43 -0700
Warner Losh wrote this message on Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:08 -0600:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 8:05 AM 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. (libfetch could support a plugin that might be
> > supplied by a port should someone be inclined to write one.)
> 
> The project isn't going to do that. "tools not policy" dictates that
> anything like that should be done in fetch(1) and likely only as a command
> line option for people that require a secure connection (or that can
> tolerate an insecure one).

Do we have a way for the admin/root to set fetch's policy to block FTP
and HTTP?

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