From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 12 16:43:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF7A1065675; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:43:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayasaman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vb0-f54.google.com (mail-vb0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73FA78FC14; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:43:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbmv11 with SMTP id v11so2082602vbm.13 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:42:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QEPdLz4eZtOA/ZvOmdobGz3ql3OgB+oJpxwnnr5pyEw=; b=Pf2Zx+R4f+7sH6ctsiCvhPw3PnLIwSsOP6T0QWRssslSjEE7VVZE9w8g3zGlUCFo0N DimJCgZmlElcLGFKKpdMaVRa8Ekw4q4x9OVBV3ta78iCw60FCGeaNGqF4YY9WqAflikL TglyO2j/FRgvtRQVtve8kjseqYboj01Fojt9hrwutwErDGw42Bn1SWd+EbhTOcoqOKBj wz2beZdiki3F/tJjpckvHE09fd4iybHR/SOSqsX7oOZ8ypVQVedex4z+uDDx5U5Ig+mN yOIJtt5wSgYImF8vo5owjXLQr2udNtCzoPA28MzvTszKsirB20qcPulyHc1BNjo4HxqL 6u7A== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.25.70 with SMTP id a6mr21515587vdg.78.1342111379092; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:42:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.154.169 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:42:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:42:59 +0100 Message-ID: From: Kaya Saman To: Devin Teske Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:43:05 -0000 On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Devin Teske wr= ote: > > On Jul 12, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> >> 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? >> >> >> I would like to use ports specifically and not the pkg_add tool to get s= oftware. >> >> >> Can anyone sugget anything? >> > > env ftp_proxy=3Dhost:port > > where 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 > fetch_no_proxy_match > fetch_default_proxy_port > http_proxy > ftp_proxy > no_proxy > > -- > Devin > > _____________ > The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confident= ial. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message = and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any = manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be awa= re that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and rev= iew by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. Thanks Devin for this however, setenv ftp_proxy ftp://: indicates that FTP is being proxied out. We simply have it banned on a Juniper firewall. So http is being proxied by a web appliance but that's it... nothing else. Regards, Kaya