How do I get lftp to use SSL/TLS security mechanism from the command line?

Question

I\'m trying to log into an ftps site. I\'ve tried giving the login creds at the command line (and putting set parameters in ~/.lftprc, the

Answer 1

Setting ftp:ssl-allow true didn't work for me.

By typing set:

lftp :~> set

I noticed this:

set ftp:ssl-allow true
set ftp:ssl-allow/XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX no

with XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX being the server, I was logging into.

So the final set of commands I needed was:

lftp :~> set ftp:ssl-allow true
lftp :~> set ftp:ssl-allow/XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX true
lftp :~> set ssl:verify-certificate no