oftpd is designed to be as secure as an anonymous FTP server can possibly be. It runs as non-root for most of the time, and uses the Unix chroot() command to hide most of the systems directories from external users--they cannot change into them even if the server is totally compromised. It also contains its own directory-change and directory-listing code (most FTP servers execute the system "ls" command to list files).
Re: compile > It doesn't compile quite ok on debian > slink, complains about > off_t, being unable to determine its > size. This, and several other compilation issues, have ...