tnftpd を Homebrew, MacPorts でインストール

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プロジェクトの歴史

The NetBSD ftpd manual page shows Berkeley Regents ancestry from 1985, 1988, 1991, and 1993, plus NetBSD Foundation work beginning in 1997 contributed by Luke Mewburn. The current NetBSD source tree continues to host the server under `libexec/ftpd`, and its version header identifies a `NetBSD-ftpd 20230930` version.

The portable archive history mirrors tnftp but is smaller. NetBSD's directory message says tnftpd is a port of the enhanced NetBSD ftp server to other systems and notes that `lukemftpd` was renamed to `tnftpd`. Archived releases begin with `lukemftpd-1.0` in 2001, move through `tnftpd-2.0` beta tarballs in 2002 and 2003, and continue as date-stamped tnftpd tarballs through 2023.

採用の歴史

tnftpd has a narrower adoption footprint than tnftp because running FTP servers is a more specialized task than fetching files. The supplied package facts list Homebrew and MacPorts, which fits the niche: developers and administrators may install it when they specifically want NetBSD's ftpd behavior on a non-NetBSD Unix-like system.

Its documentation emphasizes traditional FTP server operations: daemon or inetd startup, anonymous login chroots, syslog/xferlog logging, virtual FTP server configuration, access checks through `ftpusers`, and class-based behavior through `ftpd.conf`.

使われ方

Administrators use tnftpd as an FTP server process, either run under inetd or as a daemon. The man page documents options for IPv4/IPv6 binding, anonymous directory selection, alternate configuration roots, advertised hostnames, transfer logs, session logging, privilege dropping, and version banners.

The companion `ftpd.conf` manual documents `/etc/ftpd.conf` as the post-authentication configuration file, with class-based directives for guest, chrooted, and real users. The server also consults files such as `/etc/ftpusers`, `/etc/ftpchroot`, `/etc/ftpwelcome`, and `/etc/motd`.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

For package nerds, tnftpd is a portable slice of BSD base-system networking. It is significant because it exposes a well-documented NetBSD server implementation as an installable package for systems that do not ship that exact daemon.

Its smaller package footprint also reflects protocol history: FTP service is less commonly deployed now, but a maintained BSD ftpd remains useful for compatibility labs, legacy environments, and people comparing base-system daemons across Unix lineages.

タイムライン

• 1985-1994: Berkeley ftpd ancestry appears in the NetBSD manual page copyrights and SCCS marker.
• 1997: NetBSD Foundation ftpd work begins in the manual page copyright range.
• 2001: `lukemftpd-1.0.tar.gz` appears in the NetBSD archive.
• 2002-2003: `tnftpd-2.0` beta tarballs appear after the rename from lukemftpd to tnftpd.
• 2019-2020: NetBSD archive publishes date-stamped tnftpd tarballs.
• 2023: NetBSD source identifies `FTPD_VERSION` as `NetBSD-ftpd 20230930`, and the archive contains `tnftpd-20231001.tar.gz`.

Related projects

• Related to NetBSD's base-system `ftpd` server in `libexec/ftpd`.
• Closely paired in the portable archive with tnftp, the corresponding NetBSD FTP client port.

ソース

• https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/
• https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/.message
• https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/archive/
• https://github.com/NetBSD/src/tree/trunk/libexec/ftpd
• https://man.netbsd.org/ftpd.8
• https://man.netbsd.org/ftpd.conf.5
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NetBSD/src/trunk/libexec/ftpd/version.h
• input source_facts.package-manager