On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 06:40:47PM +0300, Konstantinos Koukopoulos wrote: > By the way, I was thinking an ftp server will probably either enable or > disable TLS on the data channel generally, not making the distinction between > LISTs or other transfers (this just based on intuition, not on reading the > relevant standards or something :) ). In that case then ftp:ssl-protect-list > should have the same default value with ftp:ssl-protect-data.
lftp ensures that the server is in proper mode before starting a transfer. In the case of proftpd it is probably a server bug that it does not switch modes of encryption properly. -- Alexander.