From 565294db09c452d671aa7838ec9fec0ff61c1081 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 02:13:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] FTP section cleanup. - Reword descriptions of FTP servers. - Capitalize list entries. PR: docs/37037 Submitted by: Dominic Marks --- en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/article.sgml | 30 +++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/article.sgml index db30227eb6..51ebc50185 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/article.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/article.sgml @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ FTP distributions. FTP access must be anonymous, and no upload/download ratios are allowed (a ridicilous thing anyway). - Upload capability is not required (and should + Upload capability is not required (and must never be allowed for the FreeBSD file space). Also the FreeBSD archive should be available under the path /pub/FreeBSD. @@ -144,36 +144,36 @@ can be set up to allow anonymous FTP (in alphabetical order). - /usr/libexec/ftpd: FreeBSD's own ftpd, - will probably do a very good job. Be sure to read &man.ftpd.8;. + /usr/libexec/ftpd: FreeBSD's own ftpd, + can be used. Be sure to read &man.ftpd.8;. - ftp/ncftpd: a commercial package, free for - educational institutions. + ftp/ncftpd: A commercial package, free for + educational use. ftp/oftpd: an ftpd designed with security as a main focus. - ftp/proftpd: a modular and very flexible ftpd. + ftp/proftpd: A modular and very flexible ftpd. - ftp/pure-ftpd: another ftpd developed with + ftp/pure-ftpd: Another ftpd developed with security in mind. - ftp/twoftpd: same as above - ftp/vsftpd: the very secure ftpd + ftp/twoftpd: As above. + ftp/vsftpd: The very secure ftpd. - ftp/wu-ftpd: The widely used ftpd from Washington - University. It became sort of infamous, because of the huge - amount of security issues that became obvious in wu-ftpd. - It also around for a long time, which can be positive - (experience) or negative (lots of bloated code). + ftp/wu-ftpd: The ftpd from Washington + University. It has become infamous, because of the huge + amount of security issues that have been found in it. + If you do choose to use this software be sure to + keep it up to date. FreeBSD's ftpd, proftpd, wu-ftpd and maybe ncftpd are among the - most used ones. The others are probably not that much widespread. + most commonly ones. The others do not have a large userbase among mirror sites.