From owner-freebsd-security Sat Apr 1 11: 8:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0843537B7C4 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 11:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12bTFL-000Kzp-00; Sat, 01 Apr 2000 21:07:47 +0200 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 21:07:47 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Nate Williams Cc: Jim Durham , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP with firewall rules Message-ID: <20000401210746.A80313@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <38E159DF.3D7E5DF6@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <200004011825.LAA04705@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200004011825.LAA04705@nomad.yogotech.com> Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat 2000-04-01 (11:25), Nate Williams wrote: > > Passive mode makes things like building ports difficult. > > Why? I've got it setup that way (been that way for a couple of years), > and things work fine. However, I do things a bit 'non-standard', and go > hack the sources to both ftp and fetch to make passive mode the > default on my boxes. :) You need only set the environment variable FTP_PASSIVE_MODE these days to get this behaviour. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message