[Gloucs] Wu-ftpd

Dan Hawes gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue Feb 18 21:18:00 2003


>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >What am I not doing with regard to wu-ftp to not be able to gain
> >access? I have installed anonftp and wu-ftp and got the
> thing going up
> >to a point, that point being when I go to log in it says 'Login
> >incorrect..Error logging on to...'.
> >
> If you don't have to use WU-ftp then I'd recommend Pure-FTPD instead.
>  WU-ftp is a bit of a dinosaur now and does not have a good security
> record.  Pure-FTPD is modern, fast and very easy to configure.
>
> Homepage is at http://www.pureftpd.org/ and you can get RPMs at
> ftp://ftp.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases.

Brilliant ta I'll give that a go. I was only using it as it seemed to be
the default thing. I am quite happy to give something else a go
especially if its more secure and slightly less of a fiddle to set up.

Will let you know how I go.
Cheers, Dan