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MacOS High Sierra kills terminal FTP?

Hi, I regular use the FTP on the MacOS terminal, however, since I updated the OS to MacOS High Sierra, when typing the FTP command in the terminal it just reply with a bash error, I contacted apple phone support and they are "investigating the issue" but no answers yet.

This is the terminal snippet:

User-MacBook-Pro:~ user$ ftp

-bash: ftp: command not found

My mac: MacBook Pro 2017, 2,3 Ghz, I5.

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, 2 TBT3), macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Posted on Sep 30, 2017 5:10 AM

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tintinve Author

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Posted on Oct 2, 2017 7:26 AM

Apple reply:

Case Number:

Hi,

Thank you for the link.

I’ve received answer from our engineers and it is not possible to access FTP through the terminal, because High Sierra is a more secure operating system.

You can perhaps use 3rd party apps to access FTP, but which are eligible for this I’m not sure of since we don’t support 3rd party applications.

Best regards.

Apple Distribution International.

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Feb 26, 2018 9:54 AM in response to cebpsis

No, you do not want to use inetutils, you want to use:

brew install tnftp tnftpd telnet telnetd

Here's a discussion about it.

Feb 28, 2018 6:11 PM in response to tintinve

This is an idiotic reason. What does the FTP client have anything to do with the security of the OS? It's like Apple is just making up reasons for stupid decisions.

danuke

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Mar 1, 2018 4:21 AM in response to andrewhuffman

Yeah, and Apple does not like it when you call them on those decisions. Their statement was also very general in scope, providing no details as to how this improves security.

Mar 3, 2018 2:56 PM in response to tintinve

Easy fix.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/299758/how-to-get-bsd-ftp-and-telnet-b ack-in-10-13-high-sierra

MacOS High Sierra kills terminal FTP?