ProFTPd
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| ProFTPd | |
| Latest release: | 1.3.0a / November 27, 2006 |
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| Use: | FTP daemon |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | www.proftpd.org |
ProFTPd is an FTP server. It's promoted as stable and secure, when configured properly on its website. The ProFTPd server promotes itself as a "Highly configurable GPL-licensed FTP server software".
Proponents say that ProFTPd is well documented, and most configurations will be very similar to those of the example configurations. ProFTPd uses only one configuration file "/etc/proftpd.conf". The ProFTPd config file is very similar to Apache's config file. It can be used to configure multiple virtual FTP servers easily, and has chroot capabilities depending on the underlying filesystem. It can run as standalone server or inetd service. It's able to work over IPv6.
Its design is modular, which enabled writing SSL/TLS encryption, RADIUS, LDAP and SQL extensions as modules.
It works with following operating systems: AIX, BSD/OS, CentOS, Cygwin, DG/UX, Digital Unix, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux for IBM S/390, zSeries, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SCO Unix, Solaris and SunOS. There is no native support for Microsoft Windows.
There is also graphical frontend for ProFTPd called gProFTPd.
