From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:35:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:35:42 -0500 Received: from [204.244.205.25] ([204.244.205.25]:50758 "HELO post.gateone.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:35:33 -0500 From: Michael Peddemors Organization: Wizard Internet Services To: Gerhard Mack Subject: Re: Is sendfile all that sexy? Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:43:34 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.95.0] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel List In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01011419433404.00214@mistress> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The two things I change everytime are sendmail->qmail and wuftpd->proftpd But remember, security bugs are caught because more people use one vs the other.. Bugs in Proftpd weren't caught until more people started changing from wu-ftpd... Often, all it means when one product has more bugs than another, is that more people tried to find bugs in one than another... (Yes, a plug to get everyone to test 2.4 here) On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Gerhard Mack wrote: > > PS I wish someone would explain to me why distros insist on using WU > > instead given it's horrid security record. > > Of course, you may be right on wuftpd. It obviously wasn't designed with > security in mind, other alternatives may be better. > > Linus -- -------------------------------------------------------- Michael Peddemors - Senior Consultant Unix Administration - WebSite Hosting Network Services - Programming Wizard Internet Services http://www.wizard.ca Linux Support Specialist - http://www.linuxmagic.com -------------------------------------------------------- (604) 589-0037 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada -------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/