From 61327320b54a59e319c522151f7a61c74ec94f2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20Lyson=C4=9Bk?= Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 16:25:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 45/46] Expand explanation of ascii_* options behaviour in man page --- vsftpd.conf.5 | 22 ++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/vsftpd.conf.5 b/vsftpd.conf.5 index df14027..a5abeb2 100644 --- a/vsftpd.conf.5 +++ b/vsftpd.conf.5 @@ -114,16 +114,30 @@ Default: YES .B ascii_download_enable When enabled, ASCII mode data transfers will be honoured on downloads. When disabled, the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact -ignore the request. Turn this option on to have the server actually do +ignore requests to activate it. So the client will think the ASCII mode +is active and therefore may still translate any +.BR +character sequences in the received file. See the following article for +a detailed explanation of the behaviour: +https://access.redhat.com/articles/3250241. + +Turn this option on to have the server actually do ASCII mangling on files when in ASCII mode. Default: NO .TP .B ascii_upload_enable When enabled, ASCII mode data transfers will be honoured on uploads. -See also -.BR ascii_download_enable -for more details. +When disabled, the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact +ignore requests to activate it. So the client will think the ASCII mode +is active and will translate native line terminators to the standard +.BR +line terminators for transmission, but the server will not do +any translation. See the following article for a detailed explanation +of the behaviour: https://access.redhat.com/articles/3250241. + +Turn this option on to have the server actually do +ASCII mangling on files when in ASCII mode. Default: NO .TP -- 2.14.3