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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:35:59 -0400
From:      Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Enabling passive FTP on FreeBSD 4.5?
Message-ID:  <20020720053558.GA3487@laptop.lambertfam.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020719122614.O21507@staff.msen.com>
References:  <p05111b1db95cfe538574@[192.168.254.205]> <016701c22edb$fcc0e250$0600a8c0@P1200n> <3D37A0A7.6070809@quack.kfu.com> <20020719122614.O21507@staff.msen.com>

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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:26:14PM -0400, Michael R. Wayne wrote:
> Having recently fought IPFW on this, and having a hard time finding
> actual firewall rules to make FTP work right on a server that
> provides FTP access to the world, here is what we ended up with
> which appears to properly permit active and passive FTP.
> 
>  # FTP/ftp
>  $fwcmd add 12501 pass tcp from any to ${ip} 20 setup      # FTP-data
>  $fwcmd add 12505 pass tcp from any to ${ip} 21 setup keep-state 
>  $fwcmd add 12507 pass tcp from any to ${ip} 49152-65535 setup # Passive FTP
> 
> Watching the logs, people are managing to successfully ftp regularly.
> 
> Yes, it's a hole.  No, we don't like that last rule as someone
> could remotely spawn a shell on one of those ports.  But we see no
> way around it as ftp access is a required service for the machine.

Doesn't ipf with ipnat have the ability to watch the FTP control channel
and figure out when and what port to allow through for a passive FTP 
data channel?  It's been a while since I looked at this so I could be 
smoking crack.

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert@lambertfam.org      

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