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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Fri Aug 19 06:26:39 2022 +0000 (2022-08-19) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/proftpd/description.txt Fri Aug 19 06:26:39 2022 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ 1.4 +ProFTPD is a highly configurable GPL-licensed FTP server 1.5 + 1.6 +ProFTPD grew out of the desire to have a secure and configurable 1.7 +FTP server, and out of a significant admiration of the Apache 1.8 +web server. 1.9 + 1.10 +When the Project began, the most commonly used server was wu-ftpd. 1.11 +While wu-ftpd provides excellent performance and is generally a 1.12 +good product, it lacks numerous features found in newer Win32 FTP 1.13 +servers and has a poor security history. 1.14 +Many people, including the developers who work on ProFTPD, had 1.15 +spent a great deal of time fixing bugs and hacking features into 1.16 +wu-ftpd. 1.17 +Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that a complete redesign 1.18 +was necessary in order to implement the configurability and 1.19 +features desired. 1.20 + 1.21 +ProFTPD is not a hack based on any other server, it's an independent 1.22 +source tree from the ground up.