Re: rssh.el interactions with ange-ftp/efs
>>>> On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 10:04:01 -0500,
>>>> "John A. Martin" <jam(a)jamux.com> said:
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.
From what I've read of the README file for ftpsshd 1.1, it should
work
with EFS as is, or with very minor configuration changes. This of
course assumes that your ssh is using RSA authentication with an empty
pass phrase. Otherwise, EFS would have to authenticate with the pass
phrase for every data transfer. Getting EFS to do this would require
some changes to the code.
Has anyone already tried to use ftpsshd with EFS?
I haven't yet built ftpsshd yet, but I hope to give it a try in the
near future. I'll have to port it to FreeBSD, as that's my OS of
preference these days.
...Sandy