Deprecating base system ftpd?

[Christos Chatzaras]

> On 5 Apr 2021, at 00:22, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
> 
> On 03/04/2021 22:39, Ed Maste wrote:
>> I propose deprecating the ftpd currently included in the base system
>> before FreeBSD 14, and opened review D26447
>> (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26447) to add a notice to the man page.
>> I had originally planned to try to do this before 13.0, but it dropped
>> off my list. FTP is not nearly as relevant now as it once was, and it
>> had a security vulnerability that secteam had to address.
>> I'm happy to make a port for it if anyone needs it. Comments?
> 
> I am on FreeBSD for more than 20 years, running FTP service on almost all our servers but it never was ftpd from base. I saw other comments against removing it but from my point of view ftpd in base is useless for me.
> And I don't see much cases where FTP service is needed before any other package / port can be installed.
> 
> As always there will be at least two groups of users one for, one against.
> 
> Kind regards
> Miroslav Lachman

I use FTP service too but pure-ftpd.

Also the only reason sometimes I use telnet is to check if SSH is open: "telnet server.example.com <http://server.example.com/> 22" but I can use "nc server.example.com <http://server.example.com/> 22"