From owner-freebsd-security Sat Apr 1 11:10:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.79.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 581B937BA79 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 11:10:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.79.115]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA28203; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:10:45 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05897; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:10:43 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:10:43 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200004011910.MAA05897@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Nate Williams , Jim Durham , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP with firewall rules 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > 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