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to: Mike N.
from: Richard B.
date: 2004-07-07 09:27:10
subject: Re: FTP server

From: Richard B. 

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:45:55 -0400, Mike N.  wrote:

>I'd begrudgingly say "MS FTP" on the windows platform.   You can enable
>disk quotas to limit account space.    Here's some old data-

Quotas are a necessity given the large CAD files and, no doubt, lack of
anyone maintaining files unless they are forced to.

> That made me doubt that he has a large enough user base to count on his full
>support in the future.

Geo had some more on this; still, that is a long time to leave the pants down.

>There's Ipswitch WS_FTP server.   This is fine except that in about April
>someone published about 5 full system level exploits.   It took them about
>6 to 10 weeks to rewrite the security and release the next version upgrade.

Sounds like a backup FTP is needed to switch to when one is exploited.

>  So that leaves MS FTP server which I don't remember as having any recent
>exploits.

Well, it might be worth a look although surely someone out there is working
on it with a hammer.

Thanks for the info!

- Richard

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