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  From: David de Groot <david@viking.org.au>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:04:46 +1030

RE: Secure FTP

Thursday, November 30, 2000, 11:03:07 AM, Adam wrote:

> Hi all.

> i've heard a lot of talk about FTP servers being insecure and all.  What
> is the best server to try (in terms of security) when I set up mine? I'm
> not intersted in major performance as I'm at one end of a dialup line
> and there won't be many people accessing it.  I am interested in one
> that keeps its memory usage low, as there is a lot of other stuff going
> on the box.

proftpd   has   been  designed  with  security in mind and patches are
relatively  quick  from  the  authors  too. It's no ssh/scp, but for a
standard ftp daemon, you can't go past it.

Dave
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