vsftpd and iptables
J. Scott Amort
jsamort at shaw.ca
Wed Nov 12 18:53:14 UTC 2003
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:54, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> On an ftp server which you want clients to be able to access via passive
> FTP be
> sure to insmod ip_conntrack_ftp module, which can be accomplished by
> adding the
> following two lines to /etc/modules.conf
>
> # iptables module added for passive ftp access to ftpd on local system
> above ip_conntrack ip_conntrack_ftp
Thanks very much - this worked. However, I would like to know why?
This wasn't a problem in RedHat 9 (or at least, it accomplished the same
thing a different way). What exactly does this do? Thanks again.
Regards,
Scott
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