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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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Posted on Oct 2, 2017 7:26 AM

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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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MacOS High Sierra kills terminal FTP?

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