Apple decided to remove the GUI for enabling and disabling FTP from Mac OS X Lion. Generally speaking, that's not a bad move, because most times SFTP is available anywhere FTP is, and SFTP is far ...

Topic ===== remote root exploit in wu-ftpd (ftp daemon for most Linux distributions) Problem Description ===== There is a bug in the wu-ftpd code that can be exploited remotely. Obviously immediate ...

I still have a rough time getting a full understanding of how PASV mode and Firewalls work with an FTP server. I have used Pure-FTPd for a few years now and overall it has worked great. Making it go ...

In the documentation to do this I have to add a parameter when doing the ./configure, but I did not install it with ./configure but with apt-get, so how can I enable virtual users? Also, there's no ...

A security warning has been issued by the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University advising users of the Washington University FTP daemon (WU-FTPD) for Unix and Linux systems that their ...

Secunia is reporting on a newly discovered, "moderately critical" vulnerability in Mac OS X's ftpd process. ftpd (tnftpd) is the FTP (file transfer protocol) server component of Mac OS X used to ...

This is a valid program but it is not required to run on startup. This program is not required to start automatically as you can run it when you need to. It is advised that you disable this program so ...