TrueNAS-12.0-U1 FTP Over TLS GUI Screen

[dtpodnar]

Hi folks. Long-time user, newly registered. Playing with the settings in FTP, specifically FTP over TLS. We were examining the various Advanced Options on the Services / FTP screen. It turns out that with Enable TLS checked, checking the "TLS Allow Per User" box completely disables the FTP service. You can't re-start FTP until you go back and uncheck this box. Not sure exactly what is supposed to happen, but not sure this is it.
Couldn't find this during a search so tried to submit a bug report but failed miserably.

 

[sretalla]

Are you talking about ftps or sftp... not the same thing.

For sftp, I'm expecting the behavior you describe.

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www.softronics.ch

I'm absolutely not sure that this is related (since I didn't use or test this feature), but it would be interesting to know if the controls there are having an impact on sftp connections (over the SSH service).

 

[dtpodnar]

The test I ran was purely an FTPS (now FTP over TLS) GUI problem, not related to SFTP at all.