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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


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