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ProFTPD
Highly configurable GPL-licensed FTP server software
Name:The ProFTPD Community
Website:The ProFTPD Project
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This community exists for newbies and seasoned professionals alike to share experience using, setting up, and maintaining a ProFTPD installation.

What is ProFTPD?

From http://www.proftpd.org/goals.html:

ProFTPD grew out of the desire to have a secure and configurable FTP server, and out of a significant admiration of the Apache web server. There are currently a very limited number of FTP servers running on Unix (or Unix-like) hosts. The most commonly used server is wu-ftpd. While wu-ftpd provides excellent performance and is generally a good product, it lacks numerous features found in newer Win32 FTP servers and has a poor security history. Many people, including the developers who work on ProFTPD, have spent a great deal of time fixing bugs and hacking features into wu-ftpd. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that a complete redesign was necessary in order to implement the configurability and features desired. ProFTPD is not a hack based on any other server, it's an independent source tree from the ground up. A number of well known and high traffic sites use ProFTPD.

In addition to wu-ftpd, there are a few of other FTP servers available which are designed to be light-weight and secure at the expense of configurability. For example, Troll FTP is an excellent FTP daemon which is considerably more secure and less resource-intensive than wu-ftpd. Unfortunately, while it is quite suitable for basic FTP services, it does not offer the feature set required for more sophisticated FTP sites.

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Community maintained by [info]cparker.
Interests:33: apache, authentication, bsd, file sharing, file systems, file transfer protocol, files, freebsd, ftp, ftpaccess, geek, geeks, gnu, gnu/linux, gpl, htaccess, http, hypertext transfer protocol, internet, ipv6, ldap, linux, networking, open source, proftp, proftpd, protocols, server, servers, software, unix, wu-ftp, www
Maintainers:1: cparker
Members:4: cparker, dmitryad, lrdjester, russia_paradise
Watched by:5: cparker, digital_space, lrdjester, russia_paradise, sjthespian
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