Re: [9fans] Secure ftp Again

[Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>]

Good evening.

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 18:11:59 -0500
Gregory Pavelcak <g.pavelcak@comcast.net> wrote:

> A couple of weeks ago, I posted saying that I couldn't connect
> to an ftp server. I got the message "No non-SSL connections
> allowed" (Or something like that). I said that I had looked at
> ssl(3), but couldn't see how to use it.
> 
> Someone (Russ Cox???. I forget now.) replied saying that I 
> probably needed to be looking at tls and pushtls. Well, I have.
> I hate to be a bonehead about this, but I still don't see how
> to make use of these things. The tips pages have nice things
> for ordinary users like mounting cds and using cdfs. Would
> anyone be kind enough to walk me through making secure
> ftp connections in a `tip o' the day' sort of way.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Greg

I submitted a patch (/n/sources/patch/ftpfs-auth-tls), which adds
the option -t for AUTH TLS to ftpfs. It seems to be what you need,
if the server you want to connect to supports TLSv1 or SSLv3.

Sincerly,

Christoph