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[Jason Clifford]

On 12 Nov 2002, Mark Lowes wrote:

> > The only time I ever tried proftpd it was rooted in less than 2 hours.
> 
> Problems which have long since been fixed.

The problemwas not so much the bug but their attitude when I reported it 
to them - simply outright denial.

I know that all software is subject to bugs. I am happy enough to accept 
that reality - indeed it is one of the factors that makes Free Software so 
important.

What I am not happy to accept is when a developer simply refuses to even 
consider that his/her product is not perfect.

> The current development / core team take security seriously as should be
> apparent by the lack of bugtraq issues.

There were no issues on Bugtraq when I tried it before either. While this 
is a useful measurement it is not by any means a guarantee of anything 
other than that nobody on Bugtraq is discussing a security issue with a 
package.

I am happy enough now with vsftpd. Proftpd offers nothing that I want/need 
so I haven't spent the effort to look into again.

Jason Clifford
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