[CentOS] wu-ftpd, proftpd, or vsftpd!

[Benjamin Smith]

On Sunday 30 April 2006 22:34, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> If that is all your users will have to do on the server, I recommend
> using proftpd with virtual users.

Having used both proftpd and vsftpd, they *seem* to be about feature 
equivalent. Is there any case where one would be preferrable to the other? 
Why? 

Unfortunately, I had a bad experience with ProFTPd - a RedHat 7.x server 
otherwise maintained with yum was compromised due to a flaw in ProFTPd, 
because I missed that ProFTPd had been installed from source and wasn't being 
updated. 

It's my bad, so I'm not really downing ProFTPd, but it does make clear to me 
that it's usually preferrable to use whatever the distro comes with, even if 
competing packages have a generally better security record, if only because 
of the assurance of timely security patches and updates. 

When you install from source, you're married to that package from then on, and 
have to maintain it until the end of time! But, when you install a distro 
RPM, the good folks at RedHat and CentOS effectively maintain it. That's a 
*good thing*, since they'll most assuredly do a better job at it. 

Over the years, I've gotten *very* conservative about what I install! 

-Ben 

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