wu-ftpd

The WU -FTPD is a developed at the Washington University FTP daemon, a server for the File Transfer Protocol.

The license of the WU -FTPD is compliant with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. The WU -FTPD was originally programmed by Chris Myers and Bryan O'Connor for the large archives of the University and is characterized by wide range of functions.

In the spring of 1999, the WU -FTPD Development Group was established to further develop, which published the latest version 2.6.2 on 30 November 2001.

Early 2000s was the WU -FTPD widespread and one of the routes of infection of the Ramen worm. A spotlight on the safety concept of the WU -FTPD threw the problem discovered in 2004 that users suddenly found themselves in the root directory of the operating system as soon as they supposedly lost all rights. Mid-2000s, no longer answered the maintainer to urgent vulnerabilities messages. The WU -FTPD Development Group website is now unreachable.