Passive FTP issues

jdozarchuk · 09-29-2005, 08:39 AM

I have noticed that FTP clients from Suse use Passive FTP as the default. This is causing problems when connecting to servers that do not support Passive FTP. Is there a way to turn off PassiveFTP as the default, from linux clients?

abisko00 · 09-29-2005, 11:27 AM

I guess this should be an option in the config file of the client. For wget, this is /etc/wgetrc. The command-line ftp uses passive FTP per default as you said, but in case this is not supported by the server, active FTP will be used automatically. It can be activated with the '-A' switch.

EDIT: You can set the default mode to active by changing/adding the environmental variable FTPMODE=active (e.g. in /etc/profile.local). See 'man ftp' for details.

jdozarchuk · 09-29-2005, 11:57 AM

Thanks, that's what I'm looking for. We have some firewall problems in my company and we've requested to get some more holes punched through.