Ssh?

[Kooldino]

Someone approached me recently and told me that his friend had an FTP server that ran through SSH. I was confused at this...since I had always thought that SSH was merely a secure telnet-like protocol. So I looked some things up, and found this:

http://www.rhic.bnl.gov/RCF/UserInfo/Facilities/DataTransfer/NetworkTransfers/UnixSshFTP.shtml

I'm getting the impression that I can somehow use an SSH connection as a proxy by fowarding info through a specified port? Anyone know what can be done?

[Sasq]

google : ssh ftp tunnel
most answers lie within

[Ribbit]

No doubt you can tunnel FTP through SSH, but SSH also has its own ftp-like implementation. Look up sftp while you're googling aroung.

[Byock]

I tunnel everything at work through ssh, You need to have putty connected to even ping the network. It works really well.

[thop]

another thing to look up on google: FTP AUTH TLS

[Helevitia]

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp

DESCRIPTION
sftp is an interactive file transfer program, similar to ftp(1), which
performs all operations over an encrypted ssh(1) transport. It may also
use many features of ssh, such as public key authentication and compres-
sion. sftp connects and logs into the specified host, then enters an in-
teractive command mode.

[Kooldino]

I searched for those links, but didn't find anything too interesting.

Byoc: That's what I want to be able to do...do you know of a "how to" on that?

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by Kooldino
I searched for those links, but didn't find anything too interesting.

Byoc: That's what I want to be able to do...do you know of a "how to" on that?

I thought I gave you what you were looking for, here is another link.

Dave

[VJ]

We also use SSH at work. TeraTerm or Putty as client software (there moste likely are others).

As a side question: I'm trying to read mail using my 5mx, but the internal mailclient doesn't support SSH. I thought using of some tunneling-application either written for EPOC, or in pure JAVA... Any such programs ?


Jörg

[Ribbit]

You could always install Linux on your 5mx, run ssh under that, and read your mail that way

[VJ]

yeah... I *could* do that (our sysadmin suggested that, but he is a Linux-adept )

Any alternatives (it is a good suggestion, but I'm not sure there are good mailclients compiled for the 5mx - of course, I could try to compile them myself...) ?


Jörg

[the maddman]

While we're on the subject of SSH, one thing everyone should know about is WinSCP.

http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/

It's a wsftp like program that uses SCP to transfer files. Even my non technical friends use it all the time to transfer files to my server. I have two friends going off to grad school and both of them plan on using my server to store backups of all their work. They've gotten so used to using it to store files, they'll keep doing it as long as I keep it up.