Re: vsftpd and TLS/SSL

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 08:43 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:32:48AM -0500, Anthony J Placilla wrote:
> > Enterprise 3, update 6
> > 
> > vsftpd-1.2.1-3E.1
> > 
> > Checking the relevant files & going through the changelog seems to
> > indicate that this version does not do TLS/SSL for FTP.
> > 
> > For various business reasons I need an FTP server that does that. The
> > SFTP subset of SSH is *not* an option (don't ask)
> 
> We went with the commercial Tectia SSH server from SSH Communications
> because we needed chroot functionality and the stubborn openssh
> developers don't seem to want to implement that.
> 
> > The maintainers site seems to indicate that TLS/SSL was not available
> > until version 2.0.x
> > (ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-2.0.4/FAQ)
> > 
> > Now if I'm missing something please apply clue.
> > Will I need to recompile from a newer SRPM to get that functionality?
> 
> RHEL 4 includes vsftp 2.0.1.5.  You can go to RHN, search for the
> package, and download the source tarball.  It will hopefully recompile
> on RHEL 3.
> 
> > Can someone suggest an alternative ftp daemon that handles tls/ssl if
> > I'm barking up the wrong tree?
> 
> The definitive source for FTP TLS/SSL:
> 
> http://www.ford-hutchinson.com/~fh-1-pfh/ftps-ext.html
> 
> For FTP services, we're using ProFTPd but the best tls/ssl support is in
> a release candidate which we haven't rolled out into production yet.
> 
>         .../Ed
> 

Much evilness

Pulled down the SRPM and tried to rebuild in my lab.
ran straight into
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111301

I should *not* have to edit .h files & fix Kerberos include horkage.
This makes the baby jebus cry.

For various and sundry reason I *have* to implement straight ftp with
TLS or SSL 
Business related cruft. There's an IBM i series, EDIBIC & a rectal
orifice of a client in the equation.

But thanks for the pointers. 


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