ftp passive mode

[Lowell Gilbert]

Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> writes:

> gahn <ipfreak at 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.

And I notice that should already be set as well; it's part of the
"default" class setting in /etc/login.conf.