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vsftpd-3.0.5p0

FTP daemon which aims to be secure

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Description

vsftpd is an FTP server, or daemon. The "vs" stands for Very Secure. It has been written with security in mind, and carefully designed to be resilient to attack. Recent evidence shows that vsftpd is also extremely fast and scalable. vsftpd has achieved ~4000 concurrent users on a single machine, in a production environment.

Package information

Ports path
net/vsftpd
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
net
Available flavors
None listed

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Direct dependencies

None listed in sqlports.

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