I have a Solaris 8 box.  In addition to the default /usr/bin/ftp , it also
has a /usr/local/bin/ftp , that I can't identify the origin of.  (will
pkginfo take a file as an argument as identify what package it came from?)

We have a new firewall, and FTP must now be passive mode.  /usr/bin/ftp
does not support passive mode, so I'm planning to replace it with
/usr/local/bin/ftp which does.  However, I'm hoping there is a way to
force ftp to use passive mode by default, instead of telling everybody that
they have to issue the "passive" command every time they ftp.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

hymie!       http://www.smart.net/~hymowitz       hymie_@_lactose.homelinux.
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2007-03-29, 07:48(-05), hymie!:
> I have a Solaris 8 box.  In addition to the default /usr/bin/ftp , it also
> has a /usr/local/bin/ftp , that I can't identify the origin of.  (will
> pkginfo take a file as an argument as identify what package it came from?)
>
> We have a new firewall, and FTP must now be passive mode.  /usr/bin/ftp
> does not support passive mode, so I'm planning to replace it with
> /usr/local/bin/ftp which does.  However, I'm hoping there is a way to
> force ftp to use passive mode by default, instead of telling everybody tha
t
> they have to issue the "passive" command every time they ftp.
[...]

Why not replacing it with lftp instead?

Then put

set ftp:passive-mode on

in

/etc/lftp.conf

(or /usr/local/etc/lftp.conf... depending on how you install it)

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Stéphane

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