April 2020
Beginner
688 pages
19h 24m
English
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File Transfer Protocol (FTP) |
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has been around since 1971. Remarkably, the underlying protocol itself has undergone little change since then. Clients and servers, on the other hand, have been almost constantly improved and refined. This chapter covers the Very Secure FTP Daemon (vsftpd) software package, which implements the FTP service.
The vsftpd program is a popular FTP server implementation and is used by major high-traffic FTP sites such as kernel.org, redhat.com, isc.org, and freebsd.org. The fact that these sites run the software adds to its “street cred.” vsftpd was designed from the ground up to be fast, stable, and very secure.
NOTE Like most other services, vsftpd is only as secure ...
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