1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> 2<HTML> 3<HEAD> 4 <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="LinuxDoc-Tools 0.9.21"> 5 <TITLE>bftpd documentation: Introduction</TITLE> 6 <LINK HREF="bftpddoc-en-2.html" REL=next> 7 8 <LINK HREF="bftpddoc-en.html#toc1" REL=contents> 9</HEAD> 10<BODY> 11<A HREF="bftpddoc-en-2.html">Next</A> 12Previous 13<A HREF="bftpddoc-en.html#toc1">Contents</A> 14<HR> 15<H2><A NAME="s1">1.</A> <A HREF="bftpddoc-en.html#toc1">Introduction</A> </H2> 16 17<P>bftpd is an FTP server for Linux, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, Solaris, DG-UX and Tru64. (I don't know if it runs on other systems, please mail me if you have tried it). It runs either with inetd or standalone.</P> 18<P>It tries to be very configurable while being fast and small. You can make defaults for each configuration option, and then override these defaults in user-specific and directory-specific structures.</P> 19<P>Features of bftpd include: 20<UL> 21<LI>Easy configuration</LI> 22<LI>Speed</LI> 23<LI>Support for most RFC FTP commands</LI> 24<LI>tar.gz on-the-fly compression/archiving</LI> 25<LI>Security with chroot without special setup</LI> 26<LI>No need for files (sh, ls...) in a chroot environment</LI> 27<LI>Logging to wtmp and to a logfile or syslog</LI> 28<LI>PAM and passwd/shadow support</LI> 29<LI>Support for SITE CHOWN/CHMOD</LI> 30</UL> 31</P> 32<HR> 33<A HREF="bftpddoc-en-2.html">Next</A> 34Previous 35<A HREF="bftpddoc-en.html#toc1">Contents</A> 36</BODY> 37</HTML> 38