Bets ftp server

zeky · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 5:48 am Post subject: Bets ftp server

hi,

I'm about to setup a ftp server on my new gentoo server-box so i need an advice what ftp app to use. I was thinking about ProFTPd.

What do YOU think? Is it secure enought?

--zeky

elzbal · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 6:25 am Post subject:

Ask 7 different people what the best FTP server is, and you will get 7 different replies.

Just to add my 2 cents, I use proftpd, and I have been very happy with it. It is very powerful and configurable. The configuration file is somewhat Apache-like, and it is very clear for me to understand. Furthermore, there is good online documentation available at http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/.

netster · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2002 Posts: 41 Location: germany

i just want my vsftpd (very secure ftp deamon). it's small. it's easy. it's written from scratch.it's secure.

my2cents

Forse · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 9:53 am Post subject: proFTPD

I use proFTPD and it's just great

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giant · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 107

It really depends on what you want to do with your ftp server.

If you just need a quick anonymous ftp server then I recommend vsftpd like the poster above.

If you need something more elaborate I'd go with pureftpd.

For my work I need to access and change users and data on my ftpserver, give some users special paths as root paths and so on. Also I need to limit the bandwidth and a couple other things that don't come to my mind right now because it's still early in the day

But pureftpd works quite nicely together with mysql - I got a db for users and what they can do and where stored there and pureftpd just gets the info from mysql.

Proftpd can do the same as well. I used it before but I changed some time ago to pureftpd because ithe configuration for me was more transparent.

I am not saying that proftdp is bad - by no means, works really good too - it all comes down to personla taste here.

vicay · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 11:29 am Post subject:

Hello,

another FTP Server, which might catch your attention
is PureFTPD (http://www.pureftpd.org)

small, but very powerful and features i have dreamt of for
years :-)

best regards

vicay

rtn · Guru Joined: 15 Nov 2002 Posts: 427

Check out this thread which at ths time of this writing
is two threads above this one....

--rtn