José Alburquerque wrote:
albi wrote:
erhm, the vsftp-software stands for "very secure ftp", but of course the admin and the admin's configuring makes it secure or not
(the fact that the redhat-company now uses it as their default ftp-server doesn't mean anything, because they were provided wu-ftpd as the default ftp-server install years ago afair, and wu-ftpd has a pretty bad reputation as has other software from WU, like pine)
May I ask what is wrong with pine? TIA.
well, here's 1 example of the mentioning of pine's not so secure code, if you try to install pine on FreeBSD (from ports), you will see this :
│ SECURITY NOTE: The pine software has had several remote │ vulnerabilities discovered in the past, which allowed remote │ attackers to execute arbitrary code as you on your local system, │ by the action of sending a specially-prepared email. All such │ KNOWN problems have been fixed, but the pine code is written in a │ very insecure style and the FreeBSD Security Officer believes │ there are likely to be other undiscovered vulnerabilities. Do you │ wish to proceed with the installation of pine anyway? │ [ Yes ] [ No ]
there are alternatives for pine, e.g. mutt, elmo, and there's more (forgot the names)