[MUD-Dev] portable ftpd daemon for lpmud?

[Malcolm Tester]

> Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
 
>> Does anyone know of a portable ftpd daemon for lpmuds?
 
ftp://osb.lpmud.com:4243/pub/driver/naseftpd.tar.gz is a
modification of the old BSD ftpd. It can run in both root and user
mode and handles permissions by asking the running mud via UDP.

  Note of Warning: It is really an OLD ftpd, hacked up multiple
  times. I never had the time to extract the mud-specific code and
  graft it into a newer ftpd.

NaseFTP needs a lot of patching to be considered "secure" and to
work with a modern driver.  I wrote a patch about 1-2 yrs ago for
Wu-ftp 2.6.0 though.  It's generic, meaning you will have to modify
it slightly depending on how your mud uses security.  But it
basically allows you to use the "ftpaccess" file to administer it.
I submittd it to Greg Lundberg, who is one of the maintainers of
Wu-ftp and was interested in it.  His goal was that by version 3.0
of wu-ftp, it'll be a standard feature and not a patch add-on.
Since then, I haven't really bothered to take the time to update the
patch since 2.6.0, as not a whole lot of people seemed interested in
it.  Most muds these days just write custom ftp programs, or rewrite
Naseftp to work for them, as that is much simpler on a technical
level than pouring through wu-ftp's code.  If your friends are
interested though, I can pull out the archives and forward the
patch.  You might find a copy of it too by searching wu-ftp's
archives.

-Malcolm



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