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From 61327320b54a59e319c522151f7a61c74ec94f2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20Lyson=C4=9Bk?= <olysonek@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 16:25:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 45/59] Expand explanation of ascii_* options behaviour in man
page
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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 <CRLF>
+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 <CRLF>
+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
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