Deprecating base system ftpd?

Miroslav Lachman
2021-04-04T21:22:26Z

On 03/04/2021 22:39, Ed Maste wrote:
> I propose deprecating the ftpd currently included in the base system
> before FreeBSD 14, and opened review D26447
> (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26447) to add a notice to the man page.
> I had originally planned to try to do this before 13.0, but it dropped
> off my list. FTP is not nearly as relevant now as it once was, and it
> had a security vulnerability that secteam had to address.
>
> I'm happy to make a port for it if anyone needs it. Comments?

I am on FreeBSD for more than 20 years, running FTP service on almost
all our servers but it never was ftpd from base. I saw other comments
against removing it but from my point of view ftpd in base is useless
for me.
And I don't see much cases where FTP service is needed before any other
package / port can be installed.

As always there will be at least two groups of users one for, one against.

Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman