Re: Move proftpd to contrib
On 17 Sep 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> OK, a bug in cron has recently produced a root exploit. What a crappy
> software, it should be moved to contrib.
Yes, but there aren't *hundreds* of bugs in cron, all giving security
problems; it has been subject (presumably) to security review;
bugs don't keep on appearing one after another, like cockroaches,
as they do in ProFTPD.
Read what SuSE said about ProFTPD, and then see how much of it
applies to cron. Not much.
And, also, arguably cron is a more important part of a Unix system
than a specific FTP daemon.
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Chris <chris@fluff.org> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )
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