[ILUG] FTP, SSL & firewalls

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Gary Pigott wrote:

> I've got a web developer that wants FTP access to our web server.

> Debian) support out of the box. Now this would be fine and dandy 
> except both the webserver and the developer's PC are behind 
> firewalls. Neither normal or PASV FTP will work because while the 
> control connection data on port 21 gets through, the firewalls cant 
> decode the datastream (it's encrypted, remember)

Your mistake here is in using a firewall that wants to be able to 
decode data passing through it.

regards,
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