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diff --git a/src/appl/gssftp/ftpd/CHANGES b/src/appl/gssftp/ftpd/CHANGES deleted file mode 100644 index 39c7ebda0c..0000000000 --- a/src/appl/gssftp/ftpd/CHANGES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -This version of ftpd has been fixed to conform to RFC959. - -Unfortunately, this conformance introduces a user visible change. While -technically, this is the fault of the client (ftp) instead of the server -(ftpd), the change will be seen whenever an old ftp client calls a new ftpd -server. - -The problem is that the old ftpd implemented the NLST command by execing -/bin/ls. This produced non-conformant output in some cases. The new -ftpd no longer executes /bin/ls for the NLST command as it has it's own -built-in code. - -The user visible change in the ftp behavior is caused by the ftp client -"knowing" that the daemon will exec /bin/ls. This assumption should not -have been made. - -When the old ftp client is used, one of the options is the "ls" command -which sends the command NLST to the ftpd server. The client should really -be sending the LIST command. The new ftp client has been corrected to do -this. - -NLST should not normally be used directly by humans. It is intended to -interface with commands like mget or mput. - -Users who are not able to upgrade their ftp client may obtain the previous -behavior, by using the command "dir" instead of "ls". - -These changes only apply to those sites using code derived from the Berkeley -software releases (which means almost every UNIX based implementation will -see this problem). - |