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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:52:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: recent FTP_PASSIVE_MODE change?
Message-ID:  <14808.37684.484892.784439@onceler.kciLink.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010021434050.3801-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010012037540.388-100000@vger.bsdhome.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010021434050.3801-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>

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>>>>> "a" == andrew  <andrew@ugh.net.au> writes:

a> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Brian Dean wrote:

>> having trouble.  I just switched over to using 'xdm' instead of
>> running 'xinit' at login, and now the defaults in /etc/login.conf do
>> not appear to be working.  Is this normal?

a> I reported this as a bug to the XFree people but they said I would have to
a> fix it myself and that there were security implications for doing xdm the
a> way it is and I got the impression I wouldn't get far if I produced

Curious... I use kdm to log into my workstation, and the
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE environment variable does get set on my local
shells.  The only place this is set is in login.conf, so it would seem
that at least kdm honors it.


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