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Date:      Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:10:43 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FTP with firewall rules
Message-ID:  <200004011910.MAA05897@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000401210746.A80313@mithrandr.moria.org>
References:  <38E159DF.3D7E5DF6@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <200004011825.LAA04705@nomad.yogotech.com> <20000401210746.A80313@mithrandr.moria.org>

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> > > 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.

Like I said, rather than mess with the environment, I just make it the
default.  Too often the users don't have it set, so by making it the
default everything 'Just Works'.




Nate


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