Date: 29 May 1999 02:43:57 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Cc: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP passive mode - a new default? Message-ID: <xzpbtf4ogc2.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG's message of "Fri, 28 May 1999 17:33:25 -0700 (PDT)" References: <199905290033.RAA02950@bubble.didi.com>
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asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) writes: > * From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> > > * FTP servers which do not accept passive mode are, IMHO, broken. Their > * loss. > > No. The losers will be our users who can't talk to them. > > 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. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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