This ftp daemon, originally from the washington university of st. louis, is a powerful, and widely used replacement ftp server for unix systems. the ftp protocol is a method of transferring files between machines on a network and/or over the internet.

besides fully supporting the ftp protocol defined in rfcs 959 and 1579 (and others), it adds the following features:
o logging of transfers,
o logging of commands,
o on the fly compression and archiving,
o classification of users on type and location,
o per class limits,
o per directory upload permissions,
o restricted guest accounts,
o system wide and per directory messages,
o directory aliases,
o cdpath,
o filename filter,
o virtual host support (similar to the apache http server).
this release is maintained by the wu-ftpd development group as a public service to the internet.