Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 11:00:59 -0800 From: Jon Drukman <jsd@cluttered.com> To: Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ftp over ssh - problems Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020102105927.00c5d088@10.10.10.1> In-Reply-To: <20011230200030.L239-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011230144925.00c54890@10.10.10.1>
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At 08:02 PM 12/30/2001 -0500, Scott Nolde wrote: >smacked into the keyboard previously by owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > > >there are still many reasons i need to use ftp, unfortunately. i use > >ftp-over-ssh to make it as secure as possible, but i have run into problems > >with recent freebsd installs. >To make the connection as secure as possible, why not use scp or sftp? >The entire session would be encrypted, not just the user/passwd. this falls under the "there are still many reasons i need to use ftp" sentence... most of the programs are windows clients that only speak ftp. there were two solutions to the problem, i found: one, spell out the remote hostname fully when initiating port forwarding. two, wu-ftpd has a "passive address" command that will let it report a different IP's to different host/netmasks. -jsd- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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