Re: [bug-inetutils] ftpd segfault

[Simon Josefsson]

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.

/Simon

[1] http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=8&topic=ftpd