Re: rssh.el interactions with ange-ftp/efs

Sandy> BTW, does anybody out there know of other file transfer Sandy> servers (other than FTP) that follow a tight protocol spec? Sandy> If so, than EFS support for it might be possible. jam> Long overdue on my to do list is to look at jam> <http://www.docs.uu.se/~pem/hacks/ftpsshd-1.1.tar.gz>;. That jam> reportedly works with ssh-1.2.26 atop Solaris or Linux at jam> least. IIRC it talks to a standard ftpd but through jam> redirected ssh secured channels. A quick look indicates that ftpsshd works as advertised on linux when built with gcc-2.7.2.1 and libc5 with slight obvious adjustments. Normal remote ftp server and local ftp clients are used with both control and data channels redirected through ssh encrypted (and optionally compressed) connections. I found both the ftp client from NetKit-B-0.09 and ncftp-1.9.9e to work for me with no surprises when talking through ftpsshd to a wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-18] ftp server. ftpsshd is GPLed and might be a candidate to let efs do ssh-1.2.26 secured ftp. ftpsshd itself contains no crypto. A little work would be needed to make ftpsshd portable wherever ssh-1.2.x goes; but it is small, the sources total less than 1,300 lines including comments. Perhaps a portable ftpsshd.el would be doable? Or using the four-letter-p-word? jam