Why not add passwords to FSP?
Thanks to Joseph Traub for the material for this section) • They don’t add much security. If you use one password for the whole site, then you might just as well set up the site and only tell a few people its port number. That’s no more or less secure than using a password. Besides, it’s easier just to set up the server only to respond to certain hosts. • Any other password system is likely to be a big loss on efficiency, since you’ll have to check every single packet. • The main use of server passwords appears to be so that people can move pirated software around, and the authors don’t want to add code to support that. • This capability does NOT belong in FSP because it gets away from the concept of lightweight simple file transfers.
