Re: [CentOS] Two ftp clients? Why?

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:41 PM, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.cawrote:

My question is why? Why are there two ftp clients provided in a single distribution and why is the kerberos version effectively made the default whereas one might reasonably assume that anything in /usr/bin/ is the standard ( and by inference default ) ftp client for the distribution? If kerberos ftp is intended to be the default ftp client then why is it not in, or at least linked to from, /usr/bin?

If you look in /etc/profile.d/ you'll see the krb5-workstation.sh script.

It tests the path to see if kerberos is in it, and if not, it prepends the path. This is why it is the first ftp used/found.

As to why, dunno. Ask rh.