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1.1       root        1: This version of ftpd has been fixed to conform to RFC959.
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                      3: Unfortunately, this conformance introduces a user visible change.  While
                      4: technically, this is the fault of the client (ftp) instead of the server
                      5: (ftpd), the change will be seen whenever an old ftp client calls a new ftpd
                      6: server.
                      7: 
                      8: The problem is that the old ftpd implemented the NLST command by execing
                      9: /bin/ls.  This produced non-conformant output in some cases.  The new
                     10: ftpd no longer executes /bin/ls for the NLST command as it has it's own
                     11: built-in code.
                     12: 
                     13: The user visible change in the ftp behavior is caused by the ftp client
                     14: "knowing" that the daemon will exec /bin/ls.  This assumption should not
                     15: have been made.
                     16: 
                     17: When the old ftp client is used, one of the options is the "ls" command
                     18: which sends the command NLST to the ftpd server.  The client should really
                     19: be sending the LIST command.  The new ftp client has been corrected to do
                     20: this.
                     21: 
                     22: NLST should not normally be used directly by humans.  It is intended to
                     23: interface with commands like mget or mput.
                     24: 
                     25: Users who are not able to upgrade their ftp client may obtain the previous
                     26: behavior, by using the command "dir" instead of "ls".
                     27: 
                     28: These changes only apply to those sites using code derived from the Berkeley
                     29: software releases (which means almost every UNIX based implementation will
                     30: see this problem).
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