I'm generally ok with us turning off FTP and don't onsider it that big a deal either way. However, I have to say most of the arguments for and against doing that I've seen in this thread are weak to very weak and some I'd consider just bogus or exaggerated. That said, this cost/benefit argument for maintaining the service seems worth considering: On 17/11/2020 20:30, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
is that having a second or third way to access information is extremely useful when things go very wrong. If that happens even once over the next 20 years then the tiny cost of keeping FTP running will be repaid in full very quickly.
I guess a lot would have to go wrong for a sustained period for FTP to save the day, but I could just about imagine it happening. It's not quite movie-plot time but fracturing in the root stores causing HTTPS to not work everywhere, plus some SSH bugginess that affected most clients and broke rsync/SSH might do it. And as we've seen this year, now and then stuff does hit the fan. I don't know if it's a sufficiently strong argument but it is one I'd not considered. Cheers, S.
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