Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:10:11 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ftp passive mode Message-ID: <44iq6i8v8s.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <111263.90106.qm@web52308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (gahn's message of "Thu, 20 May 2010 07:59:33 -0700 (PDT)") References: <111263.90106.qm@web52308.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> writes: > I am behind firewall and only pass ftp sessions are allowed. With that, most ftp sessions of portupgrade would not be able to connect to remote FreeBSD sites. > > Could I reconfigure the my FreeBSD 7.3 in a way so that it would only start ftp sessions in PASV mode? That should already be the default; FETCH_ARGS should be set to "-ApRr" in /etc/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk (the 'p' option is what means "passive" mode). It certainly works for me, and has for many years. You can test by setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE (to anything *except* "no") in the environment.
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