Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 21:07:47 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP with firewall rules Message-ID: <20000401210746.A80313@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <200004011825.LAA04705@nomad.yogotech.com> References: <38E159DF.3D7E5DF6@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <200004011825.LAA04705@nomad.yogotech.com>
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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
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