Rarely Asked Questions

1. Index:
2. What is this?
3. Is anyone using babyftpd?
4. I need help!!
5. Can you implement this cool feature for me?
6. Your server doesn't work with my client!
7. How do I configure babyftpd to use anonymous authentication?
8. Is there any security flaws?
9. What can I configure?

1. What is this?up
2. Babyftpd is a ftp daemon. It is written mostly in c++ with heavy usage of threads. It is written and tested on linux 2.6 but should work on posix compliant platforms. Authentication is done with PAM, there are plans to write an interface to be able to use different authentication methods. The tls support needs gnutls.
3. Is anyone using babyftpd?up
4. I'm running it on my home system :p (Klas)
5. I need help!!up
6. Cool, email one of us, or both.
7. Can you implement this cool feature for me?up
8. Probably, feel free to ask, if one of us feels it might be cool we'll probably write it.
9. Your server doesn't work with my client!up
10. Ok.. then we better have a look, but my crystal ball tells me your client doesn't follow the standards.
11. How do I configure babyftpd to use anonymous authentication?up
12. Um.. You can't, unless you do some pam tricks, but we'll make some better implementation of it when we feel like it.
13. Is there any security flaws?up
14. Well.. the threaded model invites to security problems, but we've tried to code so we can't run into buffer overflows and other common misstakes. There are probably security problems, but none that we know about.
15. What can I configure?up
16. Quite alot, see: http://babyftpd.sourceforge.net/babyconf.shtml. That page is updated nightly from cvs. If you want to be able to configure something specific that isn't there: Mail us.