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Date:      Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:25:42 +0200
From:      peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen)
To:        racerx@makeworld.com
Cc:        Fafa Diliha Romanova <fteg@london.com>
Subject:   Re: HELP ME WITH PF! (5th plea)
Message-ID:  <86sm1at2ex.fsf@amidala.datadok.no>
In-Reply-To: <4271EE24.9050303@makeworld.com> (Chris's message of "Fri, 29 Apr 2005 03:19:48 -0500")
References:  <20050428181754.88B914BEAE@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <86sm1artvh.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> <4271EE24.9050303@makeworld.com>

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Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> writes:

>> You could try running ftpsesame or pftpx instead.
>
> Why not simply use sftp?

That would be a bit smarter in quite a few cases, certainly.

I'm no fan of ftp myself, but there are circumstances where you need to
accomodate users' perceived needs.  That's where little bits of ftp
through NAT and/or firewalls magic comes in very handy.

-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
"First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"



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