glftpd

{{Short description|FTP server software}}

{{Infobox Software

| name = glFTPd

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| developer = glFTPd development team

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| latest release version = 2.14a (openssl-3.0.12)

| latest release date = {{release date and age|2023|12|28}}

| latest preview version = 2.13 BETA1 (openssl-3.0.7)

| latest preview date = {{release date and age|2022|11|21}}

| programming language = C

| operating system = Cross-platform

| platform = Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Mac OS

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| genre = FTP server

| license = glFTPd license

| website = [http://glftpd.io glftpd.io]

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glFTPd is a freely available FTP server which runs on Unix, Linux, and BSD operating systems. It has number of features, like logins restricted by a particular set of IP addresses, transfer quotas per-user and per-group basis, and user/groups not stored in the system files, which make it attractive to private warez servers, including topsites.Brian Baskin, Jan Kanclirz, Netcat Power Tools, Syngress, 2008, {{ISBN|1-59749-257-4}}, p. 119Paul Craig, Ron Honick, Mark Burnett, Software piracy exposed, Syngress, 2005, {{ISBN|1-932266-98-4}}, p. 113{{Cite web |url=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2003/Feb/314 |title=Full Disclosure: multiple vulnerabilities in glftpd |access-date=2009-12-27 |archive-date=2011-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605020154/http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2003/Feb/314 |url-status=live }}Andy “Enigmax” Maxwell, (November 19, 2007) [http://torrentfreak.com/top-pirate-reveals-warez-scene-secrets-071119/ Top Pirate Reveals Warez Scene Secrets, Attracts MPAA Lawyer’s Attention] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102124749/http://torrentfreak.com/top-pirate-reveals-warez-scene-secrets-071119/ |date=2010-01-02 }}, TorrentFreakAndrew Smith (b-bstf), A Guide To Internet Piracy, 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Summer 2004 It does have legitimate uses though—a number of web development books recommend it amongst other general purpose FTP servers,Dan Rahmel, Beginning Joomla!, Edition 2, Apress, 2009, {{ISBN|1-4302-1642-5}}, p. 320Steven E. Callihan, Learn HTML 4 in a weekend, Edition 4, Cengage Learning, 2003, {{ISBN|1-59200-059-2}}, p. 414 and some Linux certification exams of SAIR required knowledge of it.Michael Jang, Mastering Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, John Wiley and Sons, 2004, {{ISBN|0-7821-4347-4}}, p. 799 It can integrate with Eggdrop through IRC channels.{{Cite book | last1 = Huang | first1 = H. D. | last2 = Lee | first2 = C. S. | last3 = Hagras | first3 = H. | last4 = Kao | first4 = H. Y. | chapter = TWMAN+: A Type-2 fuzzy ontology model for malware behavior analysis | doi = 10.1109/ICSMC.2012.6378176 | title = 2012 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) | pages = 2821 | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-1-4673-1714-6 | s2cid = 14433012 }} "It is a freely available FTP server which can integrate with the Eggdrop through IRC channels to synchronize and collaborative all servers run analysis job on their clients."