[Bug 1387] New: Support for tunneling FTP

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1387

           Summary: Support for tunneling FTP
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 4.7p1
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: sshd
        AssignedTo: bitbucket at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: mindrot.org at schildbach.de


It would be great if OpenSSH would come with special support for
tunneling FTP transfers (both control and data channels), somewhat
similar to Linux Netfilter.

FTP still plays an important role, despite being deprecated by SFTP and
SCP. There are still servers (behind firewalls) that can only do FTP.
Also, having a tunnel for FTP would allow the tunnel to end on a
machine different from the gateway, while typical SFTP and SCP
connections can only access files local to the gateway.

It should be noted that there are a lot of "howto tunnel ftp via ssh"
documents floating around that leave their readers in the false
assumption that their connection would be encrypted (only the control
channel is). Such as:

http://www.ftpgetter.com/de/ftp-ssh-tunnel.php

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