[svlug] Best FTP Server

Ron Guerin ron at vnetworx.net
Tue Mar 7 19:21:37 PST 2006


Linux Rocks wrote:

> Just a quick question:
> What is the best, easy to administer, and more
> importantly most secured ftp server out there?

That is a matter of opinion, though it's a pretty safe bet we haven't
seen the last of the problems with wu-ftpd.

You might want to look into vsftpd, pure-ftpd, and read Rick Moen's page
about nearly every Linux FTP daemon.

  http://vsftpd.beasts.org/
  http://www.pureftpd.org/
  http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/ftp-daemons.html

Oh, and here's the obligatory "Use sftp instead!"

- Ron




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