Re: Security

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From: Richard Corfield
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:00

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Lee Maguire <see-sig@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes:

> One caveat - if you do this then all ftp must be "passive" rather than
> the older "active" mode which tries to open connections on different
> ports.   (I believe there may be workarounds available for this with
> newer kernels.)

I don't find that a problem apart from with BTClick's ftp home page
server which doesn't seem to understand passive, or unix file permissions
for that matter.

 - Richard.

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