Re: [bug-inetutils] ftpd segfault

[Michal Mazurek]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:21:14PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > 2) The '-a' parameter seems to be used for other things by BSD ftpd:
> >
> >      -a      Give anonymous an other login-name (anonymous and ftpd will 
> > still
> >              work).
> >
> > Do we have some parameter confusion here?
> 
> The '-a' parameter seems particular troublesome.  The above was actually
> from my Debian system.
> 
> On Solaris it is:
> 
>      -a              Enables use of the ftpaccess(4) file.
> 
> On FreeBSD [1] it is:
> 
>   -a  When -D is specified, accept connections only on the specified
>    address. 
> 
> And on InetUtils it is:
> 
>   -a, --auth=[AUTH]         Use AUTH for authentication, it can be:
> 
> I think InetUtils is the same as Heimdal and MIT Kerberos though.
> 
> Sigh.  This is just an observation, I'm not arguing InetUtils should
> change its behaviour.

I'd like to add that OpenBSD's ftpd does not have an -a switch.

-- 
Michal Mazurek