Deprecating base system ftpd?

Jonathan Chen
2021-04-04T22:30:48Z

On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 08:40, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org>
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 vote for leaving it on the system.

I have a small basic system on a portable hard drive; no installed
ports. Just enough to carry in a USB key, and to plug into any
computer on a network. Having FTP out-of-the-box makes the system
usable as a server immediately without having to search around for an
ftp-package.

Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>