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Date:      Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:33:03 -0700
From:      Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com>
To:        Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?
Message-ID:  <C412A022-7C3C-45FB-8662-ED299C272937@fisglobal.com>
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On Jul 12, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Kaya Saman wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> I am trying to introduce FreeBSD into my office and it's been looked
> at with quite a bit of enthusiasm however, what makes it look bad is
> our companies 'security' policy to block FTP.
>=20
> At present they are running a whole bunch of CentOS based boxes and
> VM's which of course can be run through port 80 when using YUM.
>=20
>=20
> How does one get round this issue as my superiors are telling me that
> opening up FTP is a security risk and therefor don't want to proceed?
>=20
>=20
> I would like to use ports specifically and not the pkg_add tool to get so=
ftware.
>=20
>=20
> Can anyone sugget anything?
>=20

env ftp_proxy=3Dhost:port <command>

where <command> is your normal command, such as "fetch".

For a full list of environment variables you can use,=85

$ ldd -f '%p\n' `which fetch` | xargs grep -alr ftp_proxy | xargs strings -=
n 7 | grep _proxy=20
fetch_no_proxy_match
fetch_default_proxy_port
http_proxy
ftp_proxy
no_proxy

--=20
Devin

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