which FTP server is better ?

[EugeneP]

Hello All,
which FTP server do you like more and why ?

1. NcFTPd
2. ProFTPD
3. WU-FTPD
4. anything else ?

I'm looking for the one for home use and would like it to have easy
configuration (i.e. user access rights to directories).

thanks.
Eugene

[Graham Wharton]

I use proftpd mainly because of it's configuration file syntax. I find it
much easier to configure than wu-ftp. never tried ncftpd so I can;t comment
on that.

Graham

"EugeneP" <eug...@rogers.com> wrote in message
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[Philip Paeps]

EugeneP <eug...@rogers.com> wrote:
> which FTP server do you like more and why ?

> 1. NcFTPd
> 2. ProFTPD
> 3. WU-FTPD
> 4. anything else ?

4. sshd (sftp)

If I wanted my passwords to be known, I'd post them on usenet, and spare
people the trouble of sniffing them off insecure connections.

> I'm looking for the one for home use and would like it to have easy
> configuration (i.e. user access rights to directories).

If your permissions are set correctly, and 'untrusted' users are jail(8)ed or
chroot(8)ed, there's no problems.

- Philip

--
Philip Paeps phi...@paeps.cx

If the faulty part is in stock, it didn't need replacing
in the first place.

[Dmitry Pryanishnikov]

Hello!

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, EugeneP wrote:
> which FTP server do you like more and why ?
>
> 1. NcFTPd
> 2. ProFTPD
> 3. WU-FTPD
> 4. anything else ?

Try vsftpd - small, very efficient (on i386SX/25 it gave 2x performance gain
versus standard FreeBSD's ftpd), aims to be "very secure" and it seems that
it in fact is (spawns second non-root process just like an Apache does).
Logs upload/download speed and even can log _every_ command/responce - very
handy beast! Also, doesn't eat 0xFF character in file name (which is being
used both in koi8-r/koi8-u and cp1251 cyrillic codepages - actual for me).

/usr/ports/ftp/vsftpd

Sincerely, Dmitry

Atlantis ISP, System Administrator
e-mail: dmi...@atlantis.dp.ua
nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE

[Paul Southworth]

In article <f8a78.115274$rt4....@afrodite.telenet-ops.be>,

Philip Paeps <phi...@paeps.cx> wrote:
>EugeneP <eug...@rogers.com> wrote:
>> which FTP server do you like more and why ?
>
>> 1. NcFTPd
>> 2. ProFTPD
>> 3. WU-FTPD

I used wu-ftpd for almost ten years and recently switched to
proftpd so I could authenticate users against a MySQL database.
I think proftpd works quite well and I like running it in
stand-alone mode, since I usually don't run inetd.

>> 4. anything else ?
>
>4. sshd (sftp)
>
>If I wanted my passwords to be known, I'd post them on usenet, and spare
>people the trouble of sniffing them off insecure connections.

When all of the horrible web publishing applications in the world
start supporting sftp I will dance a jig on the grave of FTP
right here on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.

Until then, I will use non-system passwords (ie, passwords I generate
and stick in a MySQL database) for FTP, and let users employ any
of those nasty WYSIWYG HTML generators they please.

--Paul

[-=Anonymous=-]

I've heard good things about pureftpd, but I use proftpd because I don't
feel like learning another ftpd program :)

[Magnus]

"EugeneP" <eug...@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
> which FTP server do you like more and why ?
>
> 1. NcFTPd
> 2. ProFTPD
> 3. WU-FTPD
> 4. anything else ?

All of the above is not first choice, try PureFTP, and I guarantee you wont
consider anything else for a while.

[Michael Maxwell]

"EugeneP" <eug...@rogers.com> writes:

> Hello All,
> which FTP server do you like more and why ?
>
> 1. NcFTPd
> 2. ProFTPD
> 3. WU-FTPD
> 4. anything else ?

I've had excellent results with Pro. I must point out something here
that, to my surprise, no one else has mentioned: avoid wu-ftpd like the
plague that it is. wu has fallen to more security issues and exploits
than any other FTP daemon I've seen yet. I know, it may be due to its
popularity, but Pro is just as popular these days, and I don't hear much
complaining about security problems there.

--
Michael Maxwell <mmaxwell at spss dot com>
Systems Specialist, SPSS, Inc.
Visit our web site at http://www.spss.com/

[EugeneP]

Can PureFTP restrict number of sessions from the same IP ?
Looks like it can't....

"Magnus" <sp...@me.com> wrote in message
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[Phil Kmble]

The only answer to this question is the server that you like the best. They
are are good servers, but they do the same thing a little differently! I
use wu_ftpd on my liinux server, and proftpd on freebsd, wu_ftpd is pretty
easy to setup, while proftpd gives you more control for your serving
experince. One maybe a little faster than the other, but it is a matter of
taste, you decide!

"EugeneP" <eug...@rogers.com> wrote in message
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[Michael Sierchio]

Phil Kmble wrote:

> The only answer to this question is the server that you like the best. They
> are are good servers, but they do the same thing a little differently! I
> use wu_ftpd on my liinux server, and proftpd on freebsd, wu_ftpd is pretty
> easy to setup, while proftpd gives you more control for your serving
> experince. One maybe a little faster than the other, but it is a matter of
> taste, you decide!

http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html

As usual, attention to security and performance to a degree not
found in the other ftpd servers mentioned.

[chco...@gmail.com]

[chco...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, February 2, 2002 7:02:17 PM UTC-6, EugeneP wrote:

[Bob Eager]

I personally use vsftpd, which is in ports. User configuration is pretty
easy.



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