From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 2 11: 1: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cluttered.com (w024.z064002058.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.2.58.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FDF037B417 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:00:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from orgasmotron.cluttered.com (unknown [10.10.10.39]) by cluttered.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0625CC9800; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:00:56 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020102105927.00c5d088@10.10.10.1> X-Sender: jsd@10.10.10.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 11:00:59 -0800 To: Scott Nolde From: Jon Drukman Subject: Re: ftp over ssh - problems Cc: In-Reply-To: <20011230200030.L239-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011230144925.00c54890@10.10.10.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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