Your FTP server preference?

rizzo · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 5:45 pm Post subject: Your FTP server preference?

I think pure-ftpd is easier. I ran proFTPd for a while and it was working fine. However blogger (http://blogger.com) couldn't work with it for whatever reason. A sysadmin friend said pure-ftpd was the best and I switched to that and it rocks. proFTPd took like 30 mins for my simple mind to configure. pureFTPd worked right away.

Rain Designs · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:02 pm Post subject: Your FTP server preference?

What do you think is the best ftp server?

Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong forum :oops:

Thanks

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Sesquipedalian · n00b Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 62 Location: Loveland, CO

depends on how it will be used, but.......

My favorite is ProFTPD. The configuration is very straight forward and quite flexible.

Get more info at http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/
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Rain Designs · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:22 pm Post subject:

hey rizzo, where can I find a readme on how to install and config pure-ftpd. I allready gzipped and I kinda have an idea of what to do, but I don't wanna mess anything up.

Thanks

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delta407 · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:27 pm Post subject:

Moved to networking forum.
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rizzo · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 1:16 am Post subject:

Just emerge it and set it up, there's a gentoo package for it. Otherwise look at http://www.pureftpd.org/ for any special config action you want.

Rain Designs · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 7:56 pm Post subject:

I get this when I try to execute pure-ftpd...

/usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd: /lib/i686/libc.so.6: version `GCC_3.0' not found (required by /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd)

any suggestions

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digitalnick · Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 6:21 am Post subject:

are you using gcc 3.1?

i have had good experioences with pureftp on fbsd

Rain Designs · Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 11:14 pm Post subject:

not sure which gcc I'm usin
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delta407 · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 12:03 am Post subject:

You would know you were running GCC3 if you were running GCC3. Also, this is sort of a standard thing with most *nix apps:

Rain Designs · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 1:47 am Post subject:

2.95.3
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digitalnick · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 4:52 am Post subject:

did you change any settings in the config file? and start the daemon

Rain Designs · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 5:12 am Post subject:

my ftp server is working fine!

I dont' really have any problems with it

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blunted · Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2002 2:35 am Post subject: pure rules!

pure-ftpd kicks the crap out of proftpd. Using something other than PAM with in proftpd is hell.

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charlieg · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 2:20 pm Post subject: erm RMS anyone

glftpd might rock but... "the source will be available soon."

What does that mean? There are exploits that making the source public would inform hackers? Or what?

Not really free software.

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mgirard · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 64

I have used pure-ftpd on many servers when the client requires it. I have found it to be very fast, stable, secure and easy to setup and administer. It is also very feature rich and allows for in-depth configuration. Overall everything I want in a basic FTP server.

Now, with all that being said, when I setup stuff for myself (instead of for clients) I always go with the SFTP server built-in to SSH. By far the worst thing about FTP is the constant transmission of passwords over insecure links. If you have a specific need for FTP, use pure-ftpd, if you just need to transfer files, use SFTP.

My 2 cents.
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shm · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 10:37 pm Post subject:

hmm.. I've used proftpd for about four years without any troubles (used wuftpd before that)

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amne · Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 2:01 pm Post subject:

the fish (file transfer in a shell iirc) protocol is another way to transfer files over a ssh connection, there isn't even a need for an sftp server.
clients:
lftp (console)
kio_fish (kioslave for KDE 3, you can copy files from remote servers in konqueror then)

both are in gentoo, of course

regards,
amne

darktux · Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 2:44 pm Post subject:

fleed · l33t Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 756 Location: London

What about vsftpd?

Dalrain · Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 10:34 pm Post subject:

I've found proftpd to be quite sufficient for everything I use it for, and again as a user above posted, the config is quite easy. I started on it because it's what my Qube 2 ran without a problem for quite a while some time ago. It grandfathered in, and well, it's worked for me!(tm)

Matje · Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 10:55 pm Post subject:

We use proftpd on our lanparty every time, and every time it hasn't failed us. Speed is max, setup is easy, people are happy, we are happy :-)

Could handle a 600 Gb FTP easily. Then again, the only thing we need is anonymous ftp access, occassionally limited. When we want to leech ourselves, we use sftp to get passed by the limits, so no need to setup extra users & stuff ;-)

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DuF · Advocate Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2687 Location: Paris

I use proftpd too, and I think proftpd is easy to configure and I have no problems with it.
I have friends who use pure-ftpd and there are happy with it, so try them