[lug] Making an HTTPS tunnel to an FTP server

[Bear Giles]

OpenVPN may not be able to get past the firewall.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Dan Ferris <dan at usrsbin.com> wrote:

> OpenVPN is your friend in cases like this.
>
> Dan
>
> On 12/20/2011 12:13 PM, Glenn Murray wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if someone on this list had any experience with this
> > problem.  I have a ProFTPD server running on port 21 behind a
> > firewall.  I'm like to create an HTTPS tunnel through the firewall to
> > ProFTPD so that users outside the firewall can connect to ProFTPD
> > using the same ProFTPD credentials as inside the firewall.  I
> > understand that another set of credentials is necessary to set up the
> > tunnel.  The odd thing here is that (at this point) it has to be
> > HTTPS, and not FTPS, SFTP, etc.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Glenn
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