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In-reply-to: <xzpbtf4ogc2.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> (message from Dag-Erling
	Smorgrav on 29 May 1999 02:43:57 +0200)
Subject: Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?
From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami)
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 * From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>

 * > I don't have a problem with changing the default as long as there are
 * > ways to turn them off easily (read: on a per-port basis).  Can we
 * > cancel an environment variable set in /etc/login.conf from a Makefile?
 * 
 * If we just set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in /etc/login.conf or
 * /etc/profile, all the user needs to do is set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=NO
 * before trying to fetch the port.

No.  This is from libftpio/ftpio.c:

===
static void
check_passive(FILE *fp)
{
    if (getenv("FTP_PASSIVE_MODE"))
	ftpPassive(fp, TRUE);
}
===

Satoshi


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