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
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