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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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