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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 2006 14:25:46 -0500
From:      John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Gorobets Igor <igoryan@wheel.kiev.ua>
Subject:   Re: ftp over ssh
Message-ID:  <200611081425.46932.lists@jnielsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <200611081412.18966.lists@jnielsen.net>
References:  <20061108094550.GA26361@mail.it-geeks.kiev.ua> <200611081412.18966.lists@jnielsen.net>

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On Wednesday 08 November 2006 14:12, John Nielsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 November 2006 04:45, Gorobets Igor wrote:
> > Hello. How correctly to adjust this miracle? :-)
>
> Assuming you have a server that is running sshd (on all interfaces) and
> ftpd (only on the loopback interface):
>
> ftpclient# ssh -fnN -l 20:localhost:20 -L 21:localhost:21 user@ftpserver
> ftpclient# ftp localhost
> ftp> passive

Typo above, -l should be -L.

Also, it turns out this doesn't work beyond getting logged in without also 
specifying a specific range of "passive ports" for the ftp server to use and 
forwarding those through ssh as well.

So as others have said, you're probably better off using sftp and/or scp, or 
setting up a true VPN if you're tied to traditional FTP for some reason.

JN



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