wput should be compiled with TLS support
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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wput (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Stephen Kitt |
Bug Description
Although wput originally supports TLS encryption, the version provided by Ubuntu does not.
This is a shame in a post Snowden world.
You can see that it supports out of the box:
https:/
but somehow even on Ubuntu 17.04 that option is still not available.
(the flag is disabled in compile time compilation)
Here is the output of a custom compiled version of wput:
wput --help
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[a lot of stuff]
FTP-Options:
-p, --port-mode no-passive, turn on port mode ftp (def. pasv)
-A, --ascii force ASCII mode-transfer
-B, --binary force BINARY mode-transfer
-m, --chmod change mode of transferred files ([0-7]{3})
--force-tls force the useage of TLS
See wput(1) for more detailed descriptions of the options.
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Changed in wput (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → In Progress |
Nice catch, thanks. The fix is straightforward, all that’s needed is to add libgcrypt20-dev to the build-dependencies. I’ll see if I can provide an update through Debian despite the freeze.