[16777] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.2.19: ftp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (foo@mit.edu)
Wed Mar 31 19:44:29 1999
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:44:23 EST
From: "foo@mit.edu" <boojum@MIT.EDU>
System name: geskekelud.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.2.19 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
What were you trying to do?
use mget in an encrypted ftp connection
What's wrong:
it says "Couldn't read PROT buffer length: 0/premature EOF"
and prepends the mgettable things to the next ls command.
What should have happened:
It should offer to get lots of things.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
The error was replicated for both geskekelud and ftp.dialup
using encrypted ftp, and was not present for geskekelud using
unencrypted ftp.
Sample:
geskekelud: ~]% ftp geskeleud
Connected to GESKEKELUD.MIT.EDU.
220 geskekelud.mit.edu FTP server (Version 5.60) ready.
334 Using authentication type GSSAPI; ADAT must follow
GSSAPI accepted as authentication type
GSSAPI authentication succeeded
200 Protection level set to Private (Encrypted).
Name (anz:boojum):
331 Password required for boojum.
Password:
230 User boojum logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd TestDir
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 0
-rw------- 1 mit 0 Mar 31 19:19 a
-rw------- 1 mit 0 Mar 31 19:19 aa
-rw------- 1 mit 0 Mar 31 19:19 abc
-rw------- 1 mit 0 Mar 31 19:19 b
-rw------- 1 mit 0 Mar 31 19:19 c
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> mget a*
Couldn't read PROT buffer length: 0/premature EOF
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
a
aa
abc
total 0
-rw------- 1 mit 0 Mar 31 19:19 a
-rw------- 1 mit 0 Mar 31 19:19 aa
-rw------- 1 mit 0 Mar 31 19:19 abc
-rw------- 1 mit 0 Mar 31 19:19 b
-rw------- 1 mit 0 Mar 31 19:19 c
226 Transfer complete.
ftp>
